February 7, 2022
Healthcare employment up in January
Editor's Note
Overall healthcare employment in the US was up in January to a seasonally adjusted 16,112,100 workers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on February 4. That’s up 18,000 since December.
Hospital employment was up by 3,400 jobs. The overall unemployment rate for January was 4.0%, for a total of 6.5 million unemployed people.
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