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>> the first thing is new claims for jobless, unemployment insurance. this is a kind of leading indicator of where jobs are going, people who are for the first time coming out and looking for unemployment insurance. and as you can see, it was trending down very sharply throughout most of the fall and the early part of this year. and it's been ticking up to 361,000. so we're going to get another new jobs number in about two weeks. it probably won't be a great one. let's take a look at another indicator, which is retail sales. also something that had been strong. then in march, again, you had a ...

The last month i was careful to say, you know, one disappointing month does not a trend make. well now we've got two, and the concern here is that there's been a deceleration of growth in the job market. we had a gdp number in the first quarter that was 2%. that's below trend. and so it shouldn't be unexpected that we just don't have the labor demand out there to generate the job growth that we need. and it's -- to me it's a policy problem that is amenable to actions that congress refuses to take. i can say more about what those are, maybe you share some of those ideas, maybe you don't. but th...

regime's promised cease fire. but we're now learning the syrian government has new demands. and it's easter sunday. "new york times" nick christoff joins us to talk about his new column. you're watching cnn sunday morning, where news doesn't take the weekend off. good morning, everybody. i'm randi kaye. glad you're with us. it is a story you heard here first. two men in custody by authoriti. this is one of them. i asked jonathan brooks will the arrest and how they found the suspects. >> we have two subjects in custody right now. we have alvin watts, 32-year-old white male, and jake...

Job search. president obama said yesterday that ups and downs are expected and there is still work to do. joining me is jared bernstein. jared, good to have you here. thanks for joining us. >> my pleasure, alex. >> walk us through this jobs report and tell us what the numbers tell you. >> as you suggested, we were expecting a better report. but a lot of times our expectations are like looking in the rearview mirror. the last few months on average have been delivering about 250,000 jobs per month. so folks thought that we'd be kind of in that ballpark. the fact that we weren't doesn't mean that...

>> and because of the noise you heard ron mention some of the statistical anomalies. those have to do with seasonal adjustments and the fact that this has been the fourth warmest winter on record. there you go. if you look at those monthly numbers you can see the deceleration at the end of the graph. i gave this to your crack staff 25 minutes ago and i appreciate they were able to get it up so quickly. if you look at the quarterly data, though, and you smooth out those monthly blips month to month, there you see a very clear step function. >> right. >> we're adding 200,000 jobs a month, so the...