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Friday, May 4, 2012

Confirmed: America’s jobs crisis

Confirmed: America’s jobs crisis Friday’s US jobs data sound a warning that should be heard well beyond economists and market watchers, writes Mohamed El-Erian.

With just 115,000 new jobs in April, the US economy is not creating enough employment opportunities to make a dent in the 12.5m jobless Americans in the labour force, of which a stunning 5.1m are long-term unemployed. Moreover, the disappointing monthly number managed to fall short of analysts’ massively subdued consensus expectation of 160,000, highlighting yet again the unusual sluggishness of the labour market.

http://link.ft.com/r/TWK799/TUXRMN/EW4YCB/VLATQ6/DW8YLJ/XL/h?a1=2012&a2=5&a3=4

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