Full-Time Work, Real Pay Raises: How Trump Quietly Rebuilt the Job Market | E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | AI is incredible. They can teach you how to fry an egg and even write a poem, pirate style. |
| 0:07.0 | But it knows nothing about your work. Slackbot is different. It doesn't just know the facts. |
| 0:14.0 | It knows your schedule. It can turn a brainstorm into a brief and it doesn't need to be taught. |
| 0:20.0 | Because Slackbot isn't just another |
| 0:22.4 | AI. It's AI that knows your work as well as you do. Visit Slack.com forward slash meet Slackbot |
| 0:28.8 | to learn more. Despite all the naysayers, Trump's first year back at the helm saw a labor market |
| 0:34.3 | undergo badly needed structural changes that are making Americans better off. |
| 0:38.8 | The damage left by the Biden administration is not all gone, but we're headed in the right direction. |
| 0:43.3 | And as each week goes by, more and more economic indicators are improving, and more and more dials are lining up. |
| 0:50.3 | 5% economic growth, which we were told was no longer possible, is looking more likely. |
| 0:55.7 | This economy, including the labor market, is set to take off this year. |
| 0:59.9 | If we keep up with tax reform, regulatory reform, and energy reform, economic growth will turn |
| 1:06.5 | into a rocket sled on rails. |
| 1:20.6 | Hello, I'm E.J. Anthony for the Daily Signal. America's job market has entered the slow lane. |
| 1:23.6 | That was a recent Wall Street Journal headline. |
| 1:26.6 | Most of the mainstream media echoes this interpretation, but the reality is much better than the headlines suggest. |
| 1:33.3 | In fact, it's as if the reporters who wrote those headlines didn't read beyond the headline of the Jobs Report. |
| 1:40.4 | Indeed, the latest employment data is robust, with jobs going to Americans in the private sector |
| 1:46.3 | and wages rising faster than prices. |
| 1:50.0 | There's a lot to celebrate in the Labor Department's monthly jobs report for December, |
| 1:54.8 | from who is getting jobs to the kinds of jobs being created, |
| 1:58.9 | as well as how much people are getting paid. |
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