Economists expect that US employers added 170,000 jobs in January and that the unemployment rate remained 4.1%.
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What to expect in Friday’s jobs report
If the pundits proved right, the US labor market was supposed to have broken down by now. It wasn’t supposed to survive the Federal Reserve’s historic and aggressive rate-hiking campaign to reel in high inflation.

