BLS: US Added 200,000 Jobs In December
It wasn’t quite 325,000 jobs but the United States economy added 200,000 jobs in December 2011 and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today.
That’s the lowest unemployment rate since February 2009.
The private sector added 212,000 jobs but small decreases in government employment dropped the total back down to an even two grand.
The industries that added the most jobs were the courier business (+42,000), though most of that hiring was seasonal, the BLS said, followed by restaurants and bars (+24,000), then manufacturing and healthcare (+23,000 each).
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