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200,000, 250,000 jobs created each month to bring down the unemployment rate. coming in here under 200,000, except earlier this year in february. let's look where we're seeing the jobs created because the labor market is a very diverse, diverse and dynamic place, especially in the united states. leisure and hospitality, 43,000 jobs created there. likely showing some, you know, some consumer strength. also retail jobs added there. we also saw health care jobs. we see this for years, several years, we have seen health care jobs that have been added. professional business services. 57,000 jobs cr...

Top of the hour. >> stay with us here on cnn. "your money" starts right now. 175,000 jobs created in may, the unemployment rate ticks up to 7.6%. those are the headlines but there are numbers you don't see every month and you need to pay attention to them. i'm christine romans. this is "your money." the most important number of all is your unemployment rate. it's either 0% or 100%. either you have a job or you don't but outside your personal statistic here's what's going on in the labor market, over the past 12 months the economy created 2.1 million jobs, an average of 176,000 a month. good,...

Starting to bite, and that could be reflected in the retail jobs or maybe there's some reason, sequester talk, all kinds of things happening in the economy, europe, that people are feeling less confident and that's translating into fewer retail jobs. there's something called the underemployment rate. 13.8%. slight improvement, still too, too high. that's the number that people call the real unemployment rate. that's people who aren't working or are working part time but would like a full time job. even if housing, the stock market, the economy technically recover, until you have that number do...

Less than 200,000 is not growing fast enough. and less than 250,000 is less than obama and biden said was needed. >> we can put a trend chart, show you what it's been looking like over the past year. january revised up. another revision. altogether, 61,000 more jobs added in the past couple of months than we thought. but the 88 not great for the month of march. >> even if you add the 88 plus the 61, that number came out as a total, i would still tell you it is bad. >> diane swonk with a chicago services firm. >> we talked about the underemployment rate. u-6 the line on the labor department rep...

Electoral college swing states. >> steve: i would think generally people vote with their pocketbooks when you look at the unemployment in the african-american community, right now it's at 13.8%. if people are going to vote who is going to create jobs, that is a little different? >> it is and i don't think any republican i heard made the point that unemployment rate for black folks went up while obama was president as the median income get down. things didn't get better for things under obama, but mitt romney didn't make that case. republicans they are the racist party, but mitt romney had shak...