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Data is because of seasonal factors. the latest numbers show first-time job applications for jobless benefits up 46,000. now we have gerri willis host of "the willis report," on fox business network. i don't understand why the numbers are all over the place. >>gerri: it is not exact sentence. there are 300 million americans, 24 million out of work, so they revised down the previous week which was such a surprise down to 342,000 claims from 339,000 so the numbers were skewed because california did not give us all of the numbers. now they have and we can make more sense of it. >>shepard: not gre...

Toed the -- distorted the numbers and a sharp drop the prior week. a lot of applicants delayed filing until the start of the quarter where it can mean larger checks. in this case california didn't jump until the second week of the quarter. it threw off all of the numbers. make sense? not really. the labor department revised the numbers. >> yes, they are different every week from 342,000 to 339 challenge. no big surprise to economists who are expecting this mystery state to changing their numbers. we could have better numbers in coming weeks. amazon and wal-mart are said to hire 50,000 seasonal...

Because of your strength and resilience, the strength and resilience of the american people, we've made too much progress to return to the policies that led to the crisis in the first place. >> reporter: but behind these apparently encouraging unemployment numbers are some very confusing and conflicting statistics. the number of unemployed dropped 456,000 last month while only 11,000 new jobs were added, so that leaves 342,000 people kind of up in the air. did they leave the united states? did they give up looking for work? dean baker of the center for economic and policy research in d.c. told...

Megyn: new questions from the campaign trial whether something is broken inside the president's campaign machine. several political columnists are raising that question after may started with a campaign ad over the killing of usama bin laden. critics say the ad they ruled out did not give enough credit to the special forces and gave too much credit to the president personally. then we learned the economy only added 115,000 jobs in april. meanwhile, 342,000 americans become so discouraged they dropped their job search entirely. then vice president joe biden got out ahead of his skis as presiden...

Started. >> but the president doesn't talk about most of that stuff. >> i'm saying i think what we are doing here is saying listen here is where the economy is. here is what he has to run on. he has something to run on. and it is not -- you can say as bill kristol pointed out, he didn't talk about obama care. he doesn't talk about the stimulus. never even mentions that word because it is so toxic but the fact is that there are indicators for the american people for you or anybody that has the kids coming out of college in the spring and looking for a job that say there is reason to think that ...