Employers added 353,000 jobs in January, blowing past economists' forecasts

Demand for green jobs is increasing, LinkedIn report says The first jobs report of the year portrays a robust labor market, with hiring far exceeding economists' expectations and the unemployment rate remaining near a 50-year low of 3.7%. The U.S. economy added 353,00 jobs in January, the government reported on Friday. That's double the forecast that businesses had hired 176,000 jobs last month, according to economists polled by FactSet. A robust job market has helped buoy the U.S. economy, with the jobless rate close to a half-century low and wages...