U.S. employers stepped up hiring in January, adding 467,000 jobs despite a wave of omicron infections that sickened millions of workers, kept many consumers at home and left businesses from restaurants to manufacturers short-staffed. Retired Ripon College economist Paul Schoofs admits the numbers are surprising. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4% from 3.9 %. Job gains in December were also revised much higher.
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