Analysts give theories for conflicting numbers
When it came to the nation's workforce, everything was up in April, from jobs to joblessness, giving analysts wide leeway to offer theories on why.
The nation added 290,000 non-farm jobs last month, according to the latest employment situation report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
At the same time, official unemployment hit 15.3 million. That represented an increase to 9.9 percent from 9.7 percent a month earlier and suggested the days of double-digit joblessness are not over.
Many of those people have been out of work for extended periods. The BLS found almost 46 percent of the unemployed have gone without a paycheck for 27 weeks or longer.
