“America’s Job Market Has Entered the Slow Lane,” reads a recent Wall Street Journal headline. Most of the mainstream media echoes this interpretation, but the reality is much better than the headlines suggest. Indeed, the latest employment data is robust, with jobs going to Americans in the private sector and wages rising faster than prices.

There’s a lot to celebrate in the Labor Department’s monthly jobs report for December, from who is getting jobs to the kinds of jobs being created, as well as how much people are getting paid.

For example, native-born employment rose by more than two million in 2025, while the number of foreign-born workers with jobs increased by less than 400,000. This was the best December on record for the number of native-born Americans with jobs. It’s especially important that we’re seeing this positive change from where we were trending previously.

During nearly the entire final year of the Biden administration, the annual change in native-born employment was negative, meaning Americans were losing jobs. All the supposed job growth during that time was going to foreign-born workers, a category which even the Biden Labor Department had........

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