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fter the doozy of a week we’ve had, expectations for Friday’s jobs report we
re low.Despite that, job gains were surprisingly strong in March. But that could change as employers face several looming challenges, particularly how they’ll be affected by new tariff rates under Presi
dent Trump.Diving into the data. Employers added 228,000 jobs in March, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, beating the last 12-month average of 158,000, and economists’ estimates. Average hourly wages rose to $36. The unemployment rate edged up sl
ightly to 4.2%.“We had expected a softer report, so this definitely beats expectations,” Rajesh Namboothiry, SVP at Manpower US,