Why the Jobs Report is Weaker Than Expected
Be Wealthy & Smart
Linda P. Jones
4.8 • 883 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Discover why the jobs report is weaker than expected.
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| 0:00.0 | Be Wealthy and Smart, episode 1620. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm going to live the rich life, |
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| 0:23.6 | Step into a world of wealth and financial freedom without budgets, boredom or bosses on Be Wealthy |
| 0:32.6 | and Smart. And now, here's your host, Linda P. Jones. |
| 0:44.8 | Welcome to Be Wealthy and Smart. I'm Linda P. Jones, America's wealth mentor, empowering women and men worldwide to financial freedom. |
| 0:49.4 | On today's show, we're going to talk about the jobs report coming in weaker than expected. |
| 0:56.2 | The U.S. labor market barely budged in January with hiring below even muted expectations, according to a report Wednesday from payrolls processing firm ADP. Private companies added just 22,000 positions |
| 1:02.8 | for the month, and the number would have been negative had it not been for a surge of 74,000 |
| 1:08.0 | hires in the education and health services category. The total was less than the |
| 1:12.8 | downwardly revised 37,000 increase in December and below the Dow Jones Consensus forecast for 45,000, |
| 1:20.7 | according to CNBC. The report starts 2026 off on basically the same note where 2025 ended, a lackluster job market in a low-hire, |
| 1:31.3 | low-fire environment that likely will do little to quell fears from the Federal Reserve policymakers |
| 1:36.9 | that more support may be needed. Nella Richardson, ADP's chief economist, said hiring is |
| 1:42.8 | softening. It continues a pattern that we've noticed for the past three years. |
| 1:47.5 | Employers are very reticent to hire in the current economy. |
| 1:51.2 | Richeson noted that benchmark revisions the firm employed to its data showed that job |
| 1:56.4 | gains in 2025 already were weaker than reported by about 18,000 per month or 216,000 for the year. |
| 2:04.8 | Outside of the health care-related jobs, the primary driver behind employment growth last year, |
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