Unemployment in America: No Economic Recovery for the Working Class

by Barry Grey
Global Research, April 8, 2010

Last Friday’s US unemployment report, which showed a net payroll gain of 162,000 jobs in March, has been seized on by the Obama administration and much of the media as confirmation of official claims that the recession is over and a recovery in the jobs market has begun.

Calling the Labor Department report for March “the best news we’ve seen on the jobs front in more than two years,â€