Today's Job's Report in Pictures

| By Chad Stone

Today's jobs report is encouraging, but we should judge it against the overall sluggishness of the economic recovery and a persistently large jobs deficit that remains after 23 straight months of private sector job creation. Payroll employment is still 5.6 million jobs short of where it was at the start of the Great Recession in December 2007, there are four jobless workers for every job opening, and long-term unemployment remains at an historic high level.

Below are some charts to show how the new figures look in historical context. Here is a link to our statement with further analysis.

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