Unemployment Rate Falls to 6.6% as 113K Jobs Added in January
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AndreyPopov/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — U.S. employers added 113,000 jobs to their payrolls in January, falling short of expectations, the Labor Department reported Friday morning.
Most economists had expected to see around 170,000 jobs added last month.
The unemployment rate, meanwhile, fell from 6.7 percent to 6.6 percent — the lowest rate since October 2008.
The Labor Department on Friday also revised its numbers for November and December to show that 34,000 more jobs were added during those months.
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