美國就業二月繼續大幅增加

Businesses in the United States boosted payrolls more than forecast in February, while the jobless rate remained unchanged from January's 8.3 percent.

In its closely watched monthly report, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday that employers hired 227,000 new workers last month. In addition, the report revised upward the number of people hired in January to 284,000.

Until February, the jobless rate had fallen for five straight months in the U.S. -- an indication that the world's largest economy is steadily recovering from the severe economic downturn that was the country's worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s.

As hiring has increased in recent months, the government said more jobless workers started looking for employment again in February. That left last month's unemployment rate unchanged.

The government said the job growth was broad-based, and included both higher-paying and lower-paying jobs. Professional and business services, health care, and the leisure and hospitality industries added the biggest number of jobs.二月份，美國企業增加的僱員超過預期，不過， 美國的失業率仍維持在一月的8.3%的水平。

美國勞工部星期五公佈的受到密切關注的月度就業報告稱，美國的僱主上個月僱用了22.7萬人。另外，報告還將一月份被僱用的人數上調到28.4萬人。

二月份之前，美國的失業率連續五個月出現下降。這顯示，這個全球最大的經濟體正在從1930年代大蕭條以來最嚴峻的經濟衰退中穩步恢復。

隨着最近幾個月就業機會的增加，美國政府說，二月份有更多的失業人口開始再次尋找工作。這使得上個月的失業率保持不變。

政府方面說，就業的增長涉及的行業廣泛，而且既包括比較高薪也包括比較低薪的工作。專業性和商業服務、醫療保險、休閒和餐旅等行業增加的就業機會最多。