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American workers were hammered again in March with large job losses, pushing the total number of jobs lost since the recession began to 5.1 million, the Labor Department reported Friday. U.S. nonfarm payrolls fell by 663,000 in March, close to expectations, while the unemployment rate jumped to 8.5% as expected from 8.1%. Payrolls in previous months were revised lower by a total of 86,000. January's revised job loss of 741,000 was the worst since 1949. In February, 651,000 jobs were lost. In the past six months, 3.7 million jobs have been lost, or 2.7%, the second-largest percentage loss in 50 years.
An index measuring the U.S. services sector is expected to contract in March for a sixth straight month. A services index from the Institute for Supply Management, a Tempe, Ariz.-based trade group of purchasing executives, likely registered a 42 last month, according to Wall Street economists surveyed by Thomson Reuters. That would mean the industries surveyed contracted at a slightly slower rate than in February, when the index was at 41.6. Any reading below 50 indicates contraction.