Looking Behind The Unemployment Numbers

This Friday the government reported the national jobless rate has climbed 5.7 percent. 51,000 jobs have vanished, and it’s the seventh consecutive month the U.S. economy has lost jobs. We’ll dig beneath the latest figures to see what they tell us – and don’t tell us – about our economy, and we'll see whether New Hampshire continues to hold up better than other states when it comes to unemployment.

Guests

• Dennis Delay, Deputy Director at the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies and the New Hampshire Forecast Manager for the New England Economic Partnership
• Gary Burtless, senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institute