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The U.S. added 178,000 jobs in March, roughly three times what economists expected, rebounding from a loss of 133,000 jobs in February.
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00:00The U.S. has added 178,000 jobs in March, roughly three times what economists expected,
00:06rebounding from a loss of 133,000 jobs in February, while the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3 percent.
00:14Healthcare led the gains, accounting for over half of new jobs,
00:18partly boosted by the return of striking Kaiser Permanente workers.
00:21Economists caution the data is largely backward-looking
00:24and may not yet reflect the economic drag from the Iran war and rising energy prices.
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