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The national unemployment rate nudged lower to 4.3 percent — the lowest it has been in 16 years.
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After adding more than 200,000 jobs in each of the first two months of 2017, the number of jobs added last month was about half what analysts had expected. The unemployment rate fell to 4.5 percent.
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Meanwhile, the unemployment rate stayed about where it has been, dropping just a tenth of a percentage point to 4.7 percent. All in all, the report builds on strong jobs gains in January.