Question of the Week: The Lingering Sting of a Jobless Recovery
April 21, 2010 at 06:00 AM EDT
The U.S. unemployment rate held steady at 9.7% for the third straight month in March as the world's largest economy added jobs at the fastest pace in three years - the most-certain sign yet that the worst job market in a generation is finally improving and ending the "jobless recovery," economists say. "This recovery is for real," Chris Rupkey, an economist at The Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd ., said in a statement. Still, there's cause for concern.