10% of all jobs added in the U.S. in March were in Indiana.

The statewide preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 9.9 percent in March, up from 9.8 percent in February, while the number of Hoosier jobs increased by 16,000, the “largest over-the-month employment increase since September 2005,” the Indiana Department of Workforce Development said. “The monthly increase in the unemployment rate is not considered statistically significant.”

Indiana is the only state among its neighbors to report an unemployment rate below 10 percent in March and a year-to-year decline in the rate. The national employment rate increased by 1.1 percent compared to March 2009.

Russiaville officials are meeting to consider spending $1.9 million on road, water and sewer work to attract an unnamed food company to town. If successful, the company would bring 100 to 200 jobs to the area.

USA Football is expected to relocate its headquarters to Indianapolis.