Happy Jobs Report Day! Economists project the U.S. added 100,000 jobs last month, rebounding from December's 140,000 decline, which was the first drop since jobs declined by 20 million in April.
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📖 Trivia: This country is the birthplace of author Edwidge Danticat, who has been awarded the National Book Award, the International Fiaiano Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the MacArthur Genius Grant, among many others.
- In her best-known work, she wrote: “Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”