"Certainly, it’s not hard to find bad news within the report. For one thing, 162,000 new jobs is not even a drop in the bucket of the more than 8 million jobs lost since the recession began (and don’t forget the number of new jobs that need to be created simply to keep up with new entrants into the labor force). Also, a chunk of the new jobs last month were temporary U.S. Census positions. While temp hiring among private employers often is considered a leading indicator of future permanent jobs, that’s not the case for census work. And, ominously, long-term unemployment got even worse in March. A record 6.5 million people have been out of work for longer than six months."