Payroll Report
The BLS reports:
Payroll employment rises 244,000 in April; unemployment rate edges up to 9.0%... payroll employment rose by 244,000 in April, and the unemployment rate edged up to 9.0 percent. Job gains occurred in several service-providing industries, manufacturing, and mining...
At this pace it will take more than six more years for the employment-to-population ratio to get back to it's level of 2007.
That is all.