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Hilda Solis, the Secretary of the Labor Department, discusses the jobs picture today, and where we still need to improve.

The Labor Department reported the U.S. economy added 200,00 jobs in December and the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since 2009.

The American economy added 80,000 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate eased to 9%, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Hiring was stronger than expected in September, a rare piece of good news amid growing worries of a weakening U.S. economy.

Employers added 103,000 jobs in the month, the Labor Department reported Friday. And July and August were both revised higher, showing an additional gain of 99,000 jobs over the summer.

For the last several months, there have been widespread concerns about the economy falling back into recession.

And Friday's report was welcome news amid fear of a double-dip recession.

In another sign that the job market is slowly recovering, the number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits fell last week.

There were 391,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended Feb. 19, according to the Labor Department said Thursday.

That was down 22,000 from the week before, and better than the 410,000 claims economists surveyed by Briefing.com had expected.

The U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in December, and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell to 9.4% -- its lowest level since May 2009, the Labor Department reported Friday.

The Labor Department proposed a new set of rules that would help 401(k) investors to understand the inner-workings of target-date funds.

The economy continued to add jobs last month, but at a much slower pace than expected, while the unemployment rate rose to 9.8%.

U.S. employers added 39,000 jobs to their payrolls in November, the Labor Department reported Friday. That marks a major slowdown from October, when the economy added an upwardly revised 172,000 jobs.

U.S. companies modestly added jobs in August, easing concerns that the nation might slip back into a recession.

The latest jobs report released by the Labor Department today showed employment in the private sector rose by 67,000 payrolls, after a revised 107,000 increase in July that was more than originally estimated.

The fees have long been murky, but new rules from the Labor Department will make the charges a little clearer.