WSJ Editor Breaks Down the Key Takeaways From January’s Strong Jobs Report

The January jobs report came in very very strong. But the question is, is this the start of a trend or was this a one-mon aberration. So what we saw is that job growth ticked up 130,000 jobs in January, which was really, really a good month.Expectations had been far lower than that. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 55 to 60,000. This was the best single month of job growth that we've seen since 2024.Part of the reason this jobs report was sort of surprising was because 2025 was such a dismal year. And there ...