New report shows 243,000 jobs added in January

National News
Friday, February 3, 2012 - 12:39pm

Good news on the jobs front today - very good news in fact. The economy added 243-thousand jobs in January, which is about eighty-thousand jobs more than expected.

That lowered the unemployment rate from 8.5 to 8.3 percent.

Economists like what they're seeing, but not everyone's popping champagne corks.