The regional job market began 2007 on a positive note, the state Department of Labor reported Wednesday.

There were an added 2,300 private-sector jobs in the Buffalo-Niagara Falls' market in January 2007 compared with the same month last year, an increase of 0.5 percent. The area's unemployment rate was 5.4 percent in January 2007, compared with 4.5 percent in December and 5.7 percent a year ago.

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