Breaking: Employers added 225,000 jobs in January and the jobless rate was 3.6%, signs the U.S. labor market is positioned to fuel economic growth in 2020
Economists surveyed by The Wall Street Journal had forecast job growth of 158,000, an unemployment rate.
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