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Job creation has slowed and economists are divided as to whether it will revive significantly later in 2016.
1.4 million men age 25-54 have left the workforce since before the Great Recession began.
The change would mean workers with higher salaries are eligible for overtime.
Consumer prices ticked up just a 10th of a percent last month, the Labor Department reports.
Falling oil prices slashed thousands of jobs in oil and gas extraction, including some on the Bakken oilfield in North Dakota.
What this report tells us outside the numbers.
Opportunities lie ahead for people suffering the effects of the Great Recession.
The U.S. economy added 175,000 jobs in February.
204,000 jobs were added, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.3 percent in the Labor Department's employment report for October.
The delayed October jobs report is out today, to be followed sooner than usual by the November report.
