January's Jobless Rate Shows Spurt Of Growth

NPR

Published February 3, 2012 at 12:45 PM EST

The Labor Department said the economy added 243,000 jobs in January, well beyond many economists' expectations. The unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent.

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