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Recorded those. >> sean: we are going to get job numbers tomorrow. we are told the numbers are going to seem like they are moving in the right direction. the government is hiring all these census workers. they are going to out to this as a victory. >> construction downs down, because you have temporary government workers with census doesn't skew the numbers up in a realistic fashion. there are so many americans who are unemployed, unemployable. >> sean: i've been very blessed that i've always had an opportunity when friends of mine got out of work i felt i could always roll up my sleeves, make...

Although he deliberately recorded those. >> sean: we are going to get job numbers tomorrow. we are told the numbers are going to seem like they are moving in the right direction. the government is hiring all these census workers. they are going to out to this as a victory. >> construction downs down, because you have temporary government workers with census doesn't skew the numbers up in a realistic fashion. there are so many americans who are unemployed, unemployable. >> sean: i've been very blessed that i've always had an opportunity when friends of mine got out of work i felt i could always...

Added. the unemployment rate remains su stuck at 9.7%. let's talk about today's numbers. first of all the bright side. what do you see that's positive in today's numbers? >> reporter: well the positive part is the positive part. you know, we finally generating, you know, some fairly substantial job growth, 162,000. that's upward that there's 48,000 census workers in there. as an overall trend it's clear it looks like, you know, we're turning the corner and an encouraging sign. that's positive. the second positive is the broad based nature of it if you broke it down by industry, the growth was ...

Attempt to count or population. here are the facts. the census bureau has sent out 130 million forms to households across the nation. we're told that so far fewer than half of those have come back. the effort costs more than $14 billion take a look at the states with the highest return rate so far. south dakota, north date. the lowest, texas, louisiana, mississippi, new mexico and alaska. even become a competition for some communities. the mayors in st. louis and kansas city challenging each other to see which city ends up with the most returned rate. the wager beer and barbecue. better fills ...

Month of march and that will be a seed change in direction of employment in this country. now, some of those job gains could be because we're hiring over a million people to do the census in the first six months of this year, some of these people could be census workers, but nonetheless that does appear now to be some degree of job creation. so look at the trend. that's the positive thing in this monday morning outlook. martha: i mean, it does raise one question, which is whether or not these are government jobs we're adding or whether manufacturers and businesses in this country are actually ...