2/ The US economy added 227,000 jobs in February, an increase of about 7,000 from January.
The unemployment rate dropped to 5.7%, the lowest since May of last year.
The unemployment benefits for those seeking work dropped to 4.8% from 5.9% in January.
GDP was up 3.7% from the same month last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The US Federal Reserve lowered its key interest rate in March, but this will not be enough to offset the effects of the weaker dollar.
The Federal Reserve will continue to tighten monetary policy in an effort to get the economy back on track.
The US is the fastest growing major economy in the world, and its economy is expected to grow 2.7 percent this year, up from 1.8 percent in 2016.
US GDP grew at an annual rate of 2.9 percent last year and is projected to grow at a rate of 3.4 percent this years.
According to the US Bureau of Economic Analysis, US GDP increased by a more than 4 percent rate in 2016, up 1.6 percent from 2015.
On January 28, 2018, the unemployment rate fell to 5%.
In February, the US saw a total of 11,929 new hospitalizations, which is the highest level since the start of the year.
That is the second highest number since the first week of February, after the record high of 10,737 in March.
In terms of the number of new infections, the CDC said that the total number of hospitalizations was 4,076, a decrease of 3,539 over January.
That’s the third-lowest number since January of last years.