U.S. nonfarm payroll employment rose by 353,000 in January, and the unemployment rate remained at 3.7%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported.
Job gains occurred in professional and business services, health care, retail trade, and social assistance. Employment declined in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry.
In January, the unemployment rate was 3.7% for the third month in a row, and the number of unemployed people was little changed at 6.1 million.
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (3.6%), adult women (3.2%), teenagers (10.6%), Whites (3.4%), Blacks (5.3%), Asians (2.9%), and Hispanics (5.0%) showed little or no change in January.
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more), at 1.3 million, was little changed in January. The long-term unemployed accounted for 20.8 percent of all unemployed people.
The labor force participation rate, at 62.5%, was unchanged in January, and the employment population ratio, at 60.2%, was little changed. These measures showed little or no change overthe year.
