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that it is on the right track. merkel reaffirmed her confidence. we expect to hear from president obama about the drop in the jobless rate just minutes from now. the president is also going to be outlining a plan to upgrade buildings, make them more energy efficient. the administration says it will create tens of thousands of construction jobs. the president speaking about 11:10 eastern. we'll take you there live. senators trying to figure out a compromise today to extend the payroll tax cut in 2012. here's what happened. a senate blocked both democratic and republican plans last...

Congress, the house and the senate, call for investigations, so they're going to get to the bottom of it and some in the industry think there ought to be more stringent protocols on those flash trading programs but obviously that turbulence was unsettling to the country and greece -- fears about greece, concerns going forward, play into that. it will be interesting to see how much that's offset by the strong jobs numbers this morning. >> and you lead me perfectly to a question for greg. if you've been looking at these numbers and the jobs report just out in the last hour or so and it's better ...

Today's march job report is a small step forward. savannah guthrie and ron brownstein is joining us. the president was looking on the bright side but they don't want to go out too far. everyone remembers what happened in 1992 when george herbert walker bush sounded too positive about a declining economy and got slammed. >> yeah. i think they are pleased to see some job growth. the consensus forecast was to add 200,000 jobs and the economy added 168,000 jobs, about a third ever them from census hiring. that's temporary census hiring. but also sector hiring, very encouraging for them. temporary ...

Friday's report will be boosted by two things. the adp report does not take into account. first you've got the census hiring. if government has been doing the hiring of thousands of people to handle the 2010 census. those jobs are only going to last until the summer. the february blizzards that took out a good chunk of the country. they kept employers from hiring. so in march those employers may have to make up for that. one economist says if you take those two things out, factor those away the adjusted gain may be just about 25,000. that's not as rosy as the 190,000 number. still a move in th...

We have create add lot of low skilled jobs that don't pay as well as the manufacturing jobs we lost over the past ten years. that's a big issue here. what's the quality of the jobs coming back? tony, we have talked about permalancers, contract workers, independent contractors. you get a job and the boss says, but you will be a contract worker. we're not handling your health insurance or anything else. that's 30% of the work force now. >> we are anticipating a pop here as the government ramped up employment to handle the census reporting, correct? >> all in all that should be more than a millio...