WASHINGTON — U.S. employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, but the unemployment rate fell to 4% to start 2025.

U.S. employers added just 143,000 jobs last month, but the jobless rate slipped to 4% to start 2025 and the government ...

adding around 100,000 new jobs to the final two-month tallies. Average hourly earnings, however, spiked in January, rising 0.5% from the previous month for the biggest gain since March 2022 ...

Some economists may view the January jobs report ... legal or illegal, in 2022 and 2023 caught government statisticians by surprise. Now they appeared to have caught up, using new information ...