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Tough Questions About the April 2010 Jobs Report

Troubling inconsistencies in seemingly good news

The Labor Department's monthly jobs report shows that the economy added 290,000 jobs in April. Only 66,000 of those were temporary Census jobs, another 26,000 were jobs through temp services. If the statistics are to be believed, (another story altogether) it was an impressive month with a gain of 202,000 "permanent" jobs.

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