(NewsNation) — The job market had much less momentum over the past year than previously thought, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.

Annual revisions show U.S. employers added 911,000 fewer jobs than originally reported in the year that ended in March 2025, according to a preliminary estimate from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The revision was on the higher end of expectations; economists had predicted a drop of 400,000 to 1 million jobs, Reuters reported.

Tuesday's report confirmed what many job seekers suspected: the labor market was weaker than numbers suggested for much of 2024, even before President Donald Trump took office and imposed sweeping tariffs.

"Americans' cautious outlook on the job market has now been validated by the hard data," Bankrate's senior economic analyst

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