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An employment sign hangs from a wooden fence on the property of a McDonald’s restaurant. On Friday, Feb. 1, the U.S. government issued the January jobs report, which revealed the latest unemployment rate and number of jobs U.S. employers added. (Julio Cortez/AP, File)

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U.S. employers shrugged off last month’s partial shutdown of the government and engaged in a burst of hiring in January, adding 304,000 jobs, the most in nearly a year.

By Associated Press February 2, 2019