. >> sarah chase, senior associate at the carney endowment for international justice and peace joins washington, d.c. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> we are following a monthly jobs report. we have breaking news on the jobs numbers, i asked you up, down, you said eh. >> it's improving, a good sign, the numbers came in below consensus. in march, the economy added 192,000 jobs. that was slightly below a consensus estimate of 200,000, but it was an improvement over the initial headline number of february last year. february actually was revised up to 197, so that was encouraging, the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.7%. the labor force participation rate edged up slightly. the labor force participation rate, of course is the number of people who are in work and actively looking for jobs. you want that sort of beauancy participation rate. >> we've had a very harsh winter and there's much debate about that impacting the numbers. construction jobs, we added 19,000 construction jobs last month, a very good, encouraging sign. construction jobs have a multiplier e