the reason the headline unemployment rate has improved by 0.1 percent is because the BLS removed 450k people from the survey because they had not found employment in the last 6 months. check the link. usual government denial about the true state of the economy. what a joke. http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/03/unemployment-stats-attracting-more.html links to New York Times article.