The U.S. economy added 916,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate edged down to 6.0%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Job growth was spread across many different sectors, with leisure and hospitality, public and private education, and construction leading the way.
Although the unemployment rate edged down considerably from its recent high in April 2020, it remained up 2.5 percentage points compared with February 2020, when the pandemic began.
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