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Participation in employer-sponsored insurance plans by workers ages 30 and under trailed the rate of their elders by as much as 20 percent.

As employers scour their health plans with an eye to controlling costs, they appear to be using an upper limit set by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to adjust the out-of-pockets limits skyward.

Payrolls rose 192,000 after a 197,000 gain in February that was larger than first estimated, the Labor Department reported.

Service industries picked up in March after expanding at the slowest pace in four years, showing the biggest part of the U.S. economy was starting to thaw along with the weather.

Avoiding, or at least putting off, the so-called Cadillac tax in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is on a lot of employers minds.

Companies boosted payrolls in March by the most in three months, adding to evidence the job market is recovering from a blast of harsh winter weather, a private payrolls report showed.