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The Labor Department is set to release the February jobs report at 8:30 a.m. ET Friday. By and large, economists expect it will show another month of solid job gains.
Consensus estimates are for a net gain of 160,000 jobs and for the unemployment rate to stay at 4% (near historically low levels). If the forecasts hold, February’s tally would outpace January’s lower-than-expected 143,000-job gain — a total that economists say was potentially influenced by seasonal factors, frigid weather and the Los Angeles wildfires.
But the Trump administration’s massive federal cuts and
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