290,000 jobs was created in April, that is a good news!
However the unemployment rate hits 9.9% (15.3 million persons) because more people going back looking for jobs.
Among the jobless 6.7 million or 45.9% were unemployed for over 27 weeks.
About 2.4 million persons were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.
The unemployment rate in New York-Northern New Jersy-Long Island Metropolitan area are 9.3% in Mar. 2010.
Source: U.S Department of Labor
