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192,000 and employers are hiring at the fastest rate since the recession began but 13.5 million are still unemployed. 921,000 discouraged workers left the workforce last month giving up. bring in labor secretary hilda solis. the good and the bad. the participation rate held at 64.2%. the unemployment numbers overall are obviously good news for the administration and for america. >> yes, andrea. i will tell you that in february and march we had one of our biggest growths there in the private sect...

To be able to purchase homes easier? >> yeah. yes. the midwest has the highest percentage of homeownership right now. about 71%. the south is next. 69%. the big gap is over in the northeast. here in the northeast where i am. homeownership is 64.2%. in the west, where im trying to sell a place, 61.4% right now. why the huge gap? home prices. cheap nest the midwest and in the south. average price home in the midwest, $155,000. out west, the average price for a home is $221,000. also the housing bu...

The biggest hiring spree in five years, and yet were seeing the unemployment rate climb. why is that? >> well, in a basic sense, there are two different surveys. one is the payroll numbers as companies go out and make payments, thats one thing theyre measuring. the other thing is a household survey where government officials call around to different houses and ask whats going on. so theyre two totally different surveys. thats why they show different things. if you look inside the numbers, there ...