May 3 (UPI) -- The United States added 263,000 jobs in April, while the unemployment rate declined to 3.6 percent, the lowest since 1969, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
The unemployment rate declined 0.2 percent in April as the number of unemployed Americans fell by 387,000 to 5.8 million. This comes two days after the Federal Reserve decided to keep interest rates steady.