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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: March jobs report offers bright spot, but long-term unemployment continues stubborn streak

Updated: April 4 2014,
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The Labor Department’s reported boost of 192,000 jobs in March marks a milestone in the economic recovery: all of the private sector jobs lost in the recession have been regained. Economics correspondent Paul Solman offers a closer analysis of the numbers and Hari Sreenivasan takes an in-depth look at the problem of long-term unemployment with Ofer Sharone of the MIT Sloan School of Management.