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Another good month as far as the BLS unemployment figure goes. The jobless rate dropped to 8.3% for January with an increase of 243,000 in NFP. The number generally beat expectations. source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/03/us-usa-economy-idUSTRE7BM0AB20120203

The Labor Department released their monthly jobs report today in which the jobless rate unexpectedly fell to 9.7 percent. 20,000 jobs were still lost in January though, but those numbers are better than the previous two months. Part of the drop in the unemployment number is due to discouraged...