Good News about Jobs (Finally!)

U.S. economy added 162,000 non-farm payrolls in March 2010. That was most jobs added in the last 3 years. The total of jobs added includes 48,000 of temporary 2010 Census hiring. The unemployment rate stayed unchanged at 9.7%.

This graph shows the unemployment rate and the year over year change in employment vs. recessions (courtesy of calculatedriskblog.com). Click for large image.