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Fortune
Jason Ma

Labor market turns upside down as the economy can shed jobs and still keep unemployment low amid immigration reversal

(Credit: David Ryder—Bloomberg/Getty Images)

The most closely watched U.S. economic indicators have turned upside down as President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown sends the labor force into reverse.

According to a report from Dallas Fed economists on Tuesday, the breakeven rate of employment growth, or the number of net new jobs needed each month to keep the unemployment rate steady, actually went negative during the summer and fall of last year.

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