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Reason
Christian Britschgi

Jobs Up, Federal Workers Down

Healthy jobs report: The federal government's jobs report released this morning shows unexpectedly healthy employment growth in January.

According to the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the economy added 130,000 jobs over the past month. That was enough to keep the unemployment rate steady at 4.3 percent. The reported employment growth is far in excess of economists' anemic estimates that the economy added just 55,000 to 69,000 jobs last month.

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