WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- U.S. employers added 143,000 jobs in January amid slowing job growth, with the unemployment rate edging down to 4.0 percent, the U.S. Labor Department reported Friday.
Job gains occurred in health care, retail trade, and social assistance. Employment declined in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry, according the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
