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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 sector. and that was since 2006. so we have made some progress. and overall in the last 13 months we saw...

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 i'm 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 bubble burst in the west. that was huge. that was huge. that's where the most numbers of foreclosures...

The biggest hiring spree in five years, and yet we're 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, that's one thing they're measuring. the other thing is a household survey where government officials call around to different houses and ask what's going on. so they're two totally different surveys. that's why they show different things. if you look inside the numbers, there was a ton of great numbers and the market reacted to it. there was, you know, a little bit of ...