Job Cuts Surge 65% as AI, Debt, and Policy Neglect Wreck the Working Class

AI Layoffs Economic Collapse: The 2025 Job Crisis Unfolds They told you everything was getting better. They lied. Again. Job cuts in 2025 aren’t just rising—they’re detonating. The corporate massacre unfolding in this country makes 2008 look like a hiccup. Layoffs are up 65% compared to last year, and in just October alone, over 153,000 workers were axed—a staggering 183% increase from the prior month. That’s the worst October since 2003, and that’s saying something, because 2003 followed the dot-com implosion and 9/11-induced panic. This isn’t a business cycle. It’s a systemic gutting of the American workforce. One that was engineered, not stumbled into. And now the average American—especially the young, the indebted, and the honest—is being lined up and…