Hiring going strong in 2015: 257,000 jobs added in January

American workers are ready to party like it's 1999.
 
That's because in January, 257,000 jobs were added, the best job growth since the last year of last century, according to CNNMoney. Economists expected growth of 229,000 jobs, the report states. Jobs reports for November and December were also revised upward, with 150,000 more jobs added in those months than originally reported.
 
The unemployment rate inched up to 5.7 percent but experts say that is good news, because it means more people are looking for jobs now that the economy is improving instead of sitting on the sidelines as they did when the recovery was struggling.

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