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Hiring accelerates, unemployment drops in new jobs report

Hiring jumped way past expectations for March. The Labor Department’s job report showed employers added 303,000 new jobs. Unemployment dropped again too.

Mike Regan, senior editor for Bloomberg, joins host Scott Tong with some takeaways.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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