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The January 2020 jobs report showed U.S. companies added many more positions than expected during the month as mild winter weather spurred a surge in construction employment and health care continued to add staff at a robust clip. The U.S. Department of Labor reported that payrolls increased by 225,000, besting the 158,000 estimates by the Dow Jones forecast, while the unemployment rate rose slightly to 3.6 percent as more people decided to reenter the labor force. The construction industry's job growth of 44,000 jobs was only second to education and health services at 72,000.