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More job was created in April

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

Posted Friday May 07