Unemployment Rate Unchanged At 5.5%, US Employers Added A Lower-Than-Expected 126,000 Jobs in March

U.S. employers added 126,000 jobs in March, the weakest pace since 2013, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.5 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. Economists polled by Thomson Reuters had expected net job growth of 250,000 last month. February was revised down from 295,000 to 264,000.