Employers added 243,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate dropped slightly to 8.3%, from December's rate of 8.5%, the Labor Department reported today.

Of the 12.8 million people unemployed in January, 5.5 million had been without jobs for 27 weeks or more, the Labor Department said.

There were job gains in professional business services, construction, retail and health care while employment at all levels of government "changed little,'' according to the report.

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