50000 Job Stall: Wall Street’s Gain, Labor’s Pain in 2026
Introduction: The Day the Economy Split in Two On January 10, 2026, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest employment report: 50000 job stall, only 50,000 net jobs added in December 2025—a sharp drop from the 180,000 average of the prior six months and the weakest reading since early 2023. Headlines screamed: “Jobs…