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We'll start with jobs, 916,000 of them.
That's how many that were added in America last month according to the U.S. Labor Department. It was hundreds of thousands more jobs than economists had predicted there would be. In January, initial reports showed employers had added 49,000 jobs and 379,000 in February.
The increase in March of 916,000 was the biggest employment jump since last August. At that time with the U.S. continuing its climb out of the shutdowns and closures related to the spread of COVID, the economy had added 1.4 million jobs.
As far as the unemployment rate goes, this is the percentage of American workers who don't have a job, it decreased by 2/10ths of a percentage point from 6.2 percent in February to 6 percent flat in March. A lower unemployment rate is a good sign for the economy but experts say last month's decrease is partly because there were fewer people looking for work then.
And partly because there are a lot of folks working part-time jobs when they'd prefer full-time positions but can't find them. So on the surface, the job report looks good but analysts have concerns moving forward about the state of the economy.
