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Back into the economy. 162,000 last month and the expectations are 175,000 this month and i would estimate at that we're going to see stronger growth going forward in that 200,000 area, going forward. unfortunately, there's 100 to 150,000 people entering the labor force every month. so, you're competing with that, but i'd say that you know, over time, over the next-- it may take another couple years, but we will see more jobs come back into this economy, but it's just going to be a long, slow process and i would tell people it hang in there and keep looking and something will come, you know, t...

Work and not the only one, the nation added 162,000 jobs last month. the biggest gain in three years, but unemployment is still high and now rocky, well, he says he's really not out of the woods yet either. his salary is about half of what he use today make and he's still way behind on his mortgage payments. fast, furious and we know deadly, we're learning more about the victims who did not survive that massive tornado that touched down in mississippi. and the staggering number of twisters that broke out over the course of three days, the latest from the extreme weather center coming up. the c...

Most of your viewers are concerned about jobs, jobs they lost or jobs they are worried about losing. the recession costs us 8.4 million jobs. we are 11 million jobs in the hole. last month we had job growth. 162,000 jobs. but 40,000 of those were census jobs. we need -- those are temporary. we need 150,000 new jobs every month just to keep up with population growth. so even though retail sales are up, we are still losing jobs because we have to create more to account for a higher population growth. >> stefen, what do you think? >> i agree the economy has legs but i think they are very, very sm...

This sudden increase. however if you take a look at the different categories of people actually collecting benefits, from first-time filers to those collecting continuing claims, that means they're continuing to collect after that first week, and then those extended benefits, all of those categories actually increased in the latest week and that shows there are people getting laid off and it's still tough to get a job. >> reporter: what's the big picture, what do all the numbers tell us about economic recovery? >> you can have the glass is half empty or the glass half full perspective. let's s...

His line, top of his agenda? >> dam it's you do, damned if you don't. when the job market starts to improve, more people enter it. so that has an infect on the actual unemployment rate. so it sounds odd that unemployment rate could get worse before it gets better. but if they keep -- they had 162,000 jobs last month, some of that was attributable to the census. most of it was not f they get a decent number, they continue to produce a decent number, people feel like they can get back in the market if people feel more secure in their job or they feel like there is progress. there could be politi...