PBS NewsHour

April Hiring Increase Shows Signs of Economic Healing

Clip: 05/03/2013 | 7m 4s

April showered the U.S. economy with 165,000 new jobs, reducing the unemployment rate to 7.5 percent. And dramatic revisions of employment data from the past two months were also positive Jeffrey Brown analyzes the better-than-expected numbers with Lisa Lynch, former chief economist at the Labor Department.

Aired: 05/03/13

Rating: NR

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