The Delaware Gazette

Hiring surges in January; jobless rate at 8.3 pct.

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WASHINGTON — In a long-awaited surge of hir­ing, com­pa­nies added 243,000 jobs in Jan­u­ary — across the econ­omy, up and down the pay scale and far more than just about any­one expected. Unem­ploy­ment fell to 8.3 per­cent, the low­est in three years.

Fed survey shows economy ended 2011 with strength

WASHINGTON — The final weeks of 2011 were among the economy’s strongest as Amer­i­cans shopped and trav­eled more, end­ing the year with a shot of opti­mism for 2012.

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