Forecasters count on in the present day’s jobs report to indicate an uptick in hiring final month, after a disappointing January. The report comes as Congress is weighing one other $1.9 trillion in financial support.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:
After an anemic begin to the yr, the U.S. job market skilled a giant soar in February. We discovered this morning that employers added 379,000 jobs final month. That is fairly good, greater than double the hiring of the month earlier than. And it is the very best job progress in some months. The unemployment price dipped to six.2%. This all comes