| ▲ | charliea0 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
The unemployment rate in the information-technology job market is 4.5%? | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | toomuchtodo 4 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Over 650k tech layoffs have occurred in the last 4 years. Companies have tried as hard as they can to offshore and use visa labor to avoid hiring US citizen workers. This doesn’t account for new job creation needed for workers entering the workforce. Corporations are also hiding jobs from US citizens (citations which you can find in my other recent comments). Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45306539 - September 2025 Ask HN: Recent unemployed CS grad what do I do? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43211153 - March 2025 https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-the-tech... https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/it_job_market_july/ https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/job-market-report-c... https://www.axios.com/2025/07/06/unemployment-job-market-edu... https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1kcc40j/what_happ... https://apnews.com/article/college-graduates-job-market-unem... | |||||||||||||||||
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