U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, but small-business employment grew by 1.25 percent, a jump over February's 0.2 percent increase, according to the latest CBIZ Small Business Employment Index.
March's job gains were less than half the average of the previous six months, when the economy added an average of 196,000 jobs a month. March's figures also were greatly below February's revised tally of 268,000 more jobs.
The Labor Department uses a survey of mostly large businesses and government agencies to determine how many jobs are added or lost each month. But small businesses were apparently hiring.
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