The economy grew strongly last year, but hiring stagnated. It's making the gap between the rich and everyone else worse.

The economy grew strongly last year, but hiring stagnated. It's making the gap between the rich and everyone else worse.

The US added very few jobs in 2025.Yellow Dog Productions/Getty ImagesThe economy grew in 2025, but almost no net jobs were added.It could be adding to the divide between the rich and everyone else.The labor market could stay frozen for a while this year.The data is in, and last year presents an economic conundrum: Overall growth was relatively strong, but job growth was virtually nonexistent. It bodes ill for the gap between the rich and everyo…

Jobs report shows a historic stall in hiring last year

U.S. jobs increased by 130,000 in January, buoyed by hires in health care, social assistance and construction. But in another sign of anemic hiring last year, estimates for 2025 were revised down by more than a million jobs to a level of low growth rarely seen outside of recessions.  The revisions show the United States added only 181,000 jobs last year — the first year of the new Trump administration — one of the lowest increases ever outside r…