Jobs in America: The Ugly Truth Behind Those Unemployment Numbers

More people have jobs in America this month than they did last month, so says the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But the headline unemployment rate of 8.3% isn't the whole story. It's not that there wasn't positive news. The addition of 243,000 new jobs far exceeded economists' expectations for an increase of 150,000. It was the seventh straight month of increases of 100,000 or more. And yet buried in the BLS report are numbers that paint a different picture. One of the main

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