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Unemployment rate unchanged for January

On this first Friday of the month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that the unemployment rate for January remained at 4.9 percent.

The number of employed people declined by 17,000 between December and January. The preliminary estimate of nonfarm employment was 138.1 million people.

The number of unemployed remained at 7.6 million in January.

- Mike Armstrong

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