There are still roughly 15.0 million unemployed Americans.  The jobless rate remains at 9.7%.  The number of discouraged workers--Americans who have stopped looking for work because they believe there are no jobs--is still climbing and has now reached 1.0 million.  And the number of marginally attached workers--still looking for work but not counted among the unemployed because they did not search for a job in the past month--is now up to 2.3 million.  And yet, for people looking for good news, any good news, on the jobs front, March was a good month.  Take a look at the far right of the below charts:

Today's report from the Labor Department showed that the US Economy gained 167,000 jobs last month.  Not a lot, but a positive turn nonetheless.  Read the jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics here.