
The U.S. added 678,000 jobs in February while the national unemployment rate fell to 3.8%, according to data released Friday morning by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
What Happened: February’s uptick in job creation “was widespread, led by gains in leisure and hospitality, professional and business services, health care, and construction.” The number of unemployed people for February totaled 6.3 million.