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The U.S. labor market appears to be improving nicely after shedding more than 8 million jobs over the last couple years, the Labor Department reporting that nonfarm payrolls rose by 290,000 in April and the unemployment rate worsened to 9.9 percent.

The jobless rate rose as more unemployed workers began looking for work and were again counted as “unemployed” rather than either “discouraged” or completely out of the labor force. The household survey showed that, while employment rose by 550,000, this gain was outpaced by an increase of 805,000 in the labor force.

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And … We Are Back

A bit battered and bruised, we made it to our new home in one piece and now have enough boxes emptied out and sufficient pathways cleared throughout our new rental unit that things are beginning to return to normal.

Did I miss anything?

Actually, the emptied truck was returned on Wednesday, so, yesterday we got to sit around and watch all the Greek and Wall Street madness play out on CNBC and Bloomberg.

That was pretty nuts if you ask me – I thought Jim Cramer and Erin Burnett were going to have kittens right there on the set. The fact that we got four inches of snow yesterday made the day all the more surreal – the snow is now gone but something tells me that the impact of yesterday’s financial market goings-on will linger for some time.

Anyway, by the start of next week, things should be back to a “new normal” here at the blog. Not having lived in anything other than the Pacific Time Zone for the last 30 years, everything happening an hour later (except for network TV shows) is a little odd.

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