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Employment at US businesses expanded last month as COVID-19 cases began to fall and the US remained mired in a strict economic lockdown.

The country’s private sector added 174,000 payrolls in January, according to the ADP monthly employment report published Wednesday morning. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected payrolls to climb by 70,000.

The addition follows a revised 78,000-payroll plunge in December that marked the first month of contraction since the pandemic first froze hiring in the spring of 2020. The previous ADP report preceded a surprise decline in the government’s count of nonfarm payrolls. While details ⇒

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