BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE WEDNESDAY AUG. 26, 2026) — We just got back from a whirlwind visit to our home away from home away from home. THE PLANET speaks of Syracuse, NY, where had the pleasure of speaking to the incoming SU freshman, Class of 2029. They are an eager bunch, combining equal parts fear, anticipation, and that exhilarating, scary first taste of freedom, away from home. Lots of hangovers Monday morning, first day of class.

We were struck by the white-hot job market in this city, led by Micron, a global manufacturer of computer memory. The company is building a $100 billion (you read that right) plant in the Syracuse suburb of Clay. Thousands of jobs go with it.

On the other hand, you have Bitchfield, where THE PLANET recently talked to a local landscaper. He’s built a fine business over several years, but he’s hampered by the local worker market. He currently has three positions open because he can’t get reliable help.

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“Young people don’t want to work. They want it handed it to them,” he said. “They come in and begin to dictate their terms. I’ve never  seen anything like it. I can’t take on new customers. [Expletive], I can’t even service all of my current list. And they have no common sense and know little of the most basic math.”

In this vein, we share a jobs report you may have missed. Socialist Massachusetts is bleeding private-sector jobs and private capital investment. Yes. You’re shocked. Shocked.

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FROM THE PIONEER INSTITUTE

Boston – Data released today from the Bureau of Labor Statistics confirm that the Commonwealth has lost even more private sector jobs in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic than previously understood.

Pioneer Institute’s March 2025 report Massachusetts at Risk: The Alarming Decline of Private Sector Employment Growth found that the Commonwealth had 24,000 fewer private sector jobs than in January 2020 (-0.74 percent), but today’s updated figures revise the decline to 34,700 (-1.06 percent)from January 2020 to January 2026, putting Massachusetts even further behind the national average of 4.65 percent growth over that period.

“The revised data are clear: Massachusetts’ economic challenges run deeper than we thought,” said Pioneer Executive Director Jim Stergios. “Over the past six years, the Commonwealth has lost the equivalent of every private-sector job in Brookline, while business-friendly states have added jobs by the hundreds of thousands.”

Losses did not only occur during the pandemic – from January 2025 to January 2026 the state lost 11,600 jobs (-0.49 percent).

Across the country, benchmark updates to the Current Employment Statistics (CES) dataset reveal that job growth in 2025 was overstated in earlier estimates. However, the impact on Massachusetts is particularly striking. Already one of only six states and D.C. to experience negative private sector employment growth since 2020, the Commonwealth now appears to have experienced an even more prolonged and severe period of stagnation.

The implications are clear: Massachusetts is not just lagging – it is losing ground. While competitor states such as Texas (11.9 percent or 1.3 million jobs), Florida (11.3 percent or 895,000 jobs), and North Carolina (10.3 percent or 401,000 jobs)have continued to post strong private sector job growth since 2020, the revised data show that Massachusetts has failed to keep pace by an even wider margin than previously reported.

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At least THE PLANET can rest assured about this: In Bitchfield, especially with Lumpy, Voltron, and Dumpster at the helm, there will always be two jobs — a con job and a snow job.

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“Money is a unit of value to measure worth. A job is an activity that generates income for a person” — Sir Donald Turpentine, Knight of the Bath.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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