President Donald Trump has been hit with a disastrous jobs report to kick off the new year. Employers added 50,000 jobs last month, coming in below economists’ expectations, according to figures released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest update on the job market. President Donald Trump had a figure he could highlight, at least initially. The economy added 64,000 net new jobs in November, a bounce back from October’s loss of 105,000 jobs.

The government shutdown made the November jobs report especially hard to read. There was not just the problem of missing a month of jobs data for the first time in many decades, but also the difficulty in trying to determine how much impact the shutdown ...