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it could also send us a message via twitter. more from the article in this morning's "baltimore sun." part of the job increase in

march, 48,000 positions came from the hiring of temporary workers by the census bureau. the private sector generated one under 23,000 jobs last month, more than many analysts projected. the article goes on to say that manufacturing payrolls expanded for the third month in a row. financial-services and the information industries lost jobs, but health care, educators, and retailers added to their payrolls. also, in this morning's washington post, hiring four senses helps, but unemployment stuck near 10%. -- hiring for census helps.

for the first 45 minutes, said the recovery in your area, our first call comes from indianapolis. caller: thank you for taking my call. we have more construction spending going on in this area. that means consumer spending is picking up a little bit more. we cannot have a true economic recovery until the banks start lending. something has to be done about the credit markets. they're still kind of frozen and until we get the banks to start lending and increased credit, we

will not have a true recovery. this is a supply and demand economy and it is based on people purchasing items. unless we get the banks starting to open up credit, the impact of our recovery is not going to be -- is gone to be very slow. the banks at the top money to help them back in 2008. -- tarp money. host: let's move onto roberts in north carolina. caller: i am currently employed. my son is working part-time. host: what kind of work as your son did? caller: he works for a company that makes glass stovetops. he is working four days a week. host: the previous caller talked about more money being put into

lending and getting people a chance to buy more home. if more homes are being sold, more homes are being built, would that help your son situation? caller: it probably would. what i find about the job market is that i live in the right to work state, but that is a misnomer. nobody has a right to a job. if a person is gainfully employed, he can do want to build a house or whatever, maybe have some property. caller: thank you for your call. we're going to move on it to david in north carolina. caller: in plymouth, the recovery is slow. there are people that are beginning to open up their own businesses. they're having difficulty to find -- difficulty finding the

money, but they are getting out on their own families are working together to try to put some businesses together. growth is happening. host: the growth that you are staying in plymouth, it is that a result of the stimulus money or is this just the people in plymouth tried to find ways to put together the cash to do their businesses? caller: families are pulling together. individuals are pulling together. the money is slowly trickling down to our committee. -- down to our committee. -- committecommunity.

host: in the near times this morning, their lead story signaling jobs recovery. payrolls surged in march. they're right that private sector job growth was strongest in temporary help services and health care. the nation added temporary service jobs last month, indicating that many employers were testing the waters before taking the plunge with a permanent hire. the health-care industry, which grew steadily even during the depths of the recession, expanded by 27,000 jobs in march. modesto, calif., that democrats line. caller: i would like to make a few comments. we have not seen the recovery in the central valley. we are an area that is on represented in the senate' and n the congress. california does not need the central valley's notes. barack obama did not need it. we have got less in the stimulus

money. we rank as seventh out of the night, i believed. -- ninth, i believe. this is a farming community. we have been restricted in the water flow. there are areas in the west side that have 35% unemployment. stockton, modesto are 18%, 19% unemployment right now and rising. until we get representation, we have no representation. central valley's vote is not needed by the democrats and it

does not affect the republicans. the last time the central valley actually voted for barack obama and that is the first time in a presidential election that it would democrat. i can tell you that -- we supply the food for the rest of the country. from fresno to the san walking valley, it is farming. host: let me read you something from the wall street journal this morning. the economy has a long way to go to rebuild the nearly 8 million jobs lost during the downturn. we have to be very cautious --

france, are you still with me? do you think that the unemployment rate in the central valley is going to be a seventh factor in the 2010 and 2012 elections? caller: i am in a congressional district that is made up for republicans. in modesto, it is represented by two different congressman. they cut the territory up. he does not even live in the

district and he is going to run for my district. until somebody does not go with something to somebody -- that did not come from people from the central valley. that came from somebody in washington d.c. and richard is being paid to take the congressional seat. we're not represented. the central valley has never got an -- it is always a high unemployment area compared to the rest of the nation. we're always at least double what the rest of the nation is. we deal with unemployment. host: we're going to leave it there. thank you for the call. next up is a robert in ohio. are you there? let's move on to michigan, daniel on our line for independence.

caller: i have two comments to make. the first comment is, any signs of recovery, it is not going to happen until that debt is eliminated. -- nafta is eliminated. ahmadinejad increase -- a job increase happens every time this year. an increase like this happens every time. it is nothing to really talk about. host: go back to nafta for me. how will that affect the recovery in the united states? caller: my wife just lost her job two days ago. that job was sent out of the country. host: what was she doing? caller: it is not free trade. it is on fair trade. -- unfair trade. she was an engineer from data

supplier. host: we're going to respond to california. -- we're going to move on to california. caller: i have been a logger for 45 years. they were showing all of these people in haiti trying to build houses out of some of these boxes that they sense stuff over here. we're sitting here with billions of timber. we're sitting on a place that has 9 billion feet of state on forests. we could export it over to haiti in lumber. those people are going to run

into these monsoons. they have all these tents. i've been on unemployment for almost a year now. because of the house the industry -- because of the housing industry, we have to do something. when the mills shut down in southern california, that is gone to kill us. -- that is going to kill us. all this timber is just going to sit and rot. it makes me cry to see all of these renewable resources going to waste. host: reminder, if you want to get involved in the conversation, the numbers are --

jim on our line for the independents -- let's move on to brian in texas on our line for democrats. caller: good morning. my overview of the recovery is very minimal here in the state of texas. you can see a few things as far as transportation. repair and that sort of thing. but my major concern is what happened to the financial institutes where you could once have five-star credit and now you get nothing.

host: thank you for your call. let's move onto phoenix. caller: there are no jobs in arizona anywhere. there are no jobs anywhere in this country. there is a good reason for that. there is no manufacturing base of zero left in this country. any country that has left -- has lost its main factory base has gone down the toilet. the last country that did that was in england. we're all in the same path that england is falling. -- following. there are no jobs. host: what were you doing before you were laid off? caller: i am a carpenter. i worked for a company for 35 years. the same country. he shut it down because there are no jobs. host: how long have you been out of job? caller: six months sprit until our government -- six months.

until our government forces the manufacturer to come back into this country, we have a problem. host: stephen on airline for democrats. caller: my economy in south carolina is all hotels and things of that nature. it is tourism and things like that. one of the biggest things that helps stimulate the economy in the united states is to stop the worker bees is coming into the country right now. -- worker visas. every summer, they bring in -- bill gates does it. everybody does it permit --

everybody does it. they get visas ofor these peopl. our unemployment is 50% in myrtle beach. -- 15% in myrtle beach. host: are people staying employed after the summer vacation season? caller: no. it is seasonal. host: thank you for your call. indeed -- in the "new york post" this morning --

the state' double the cigarette tax to pay for it all. the governor is our desk -- as our guest later this week. he sat down for an interview and talked about what new employment figures show is happening to the u.s. economically. >> i would be very cautious about saying anything else. i do not see it yet on the ground. i talk to businesses all the time. i tend to put a little more stock in what they say than the statistics. i do find firms that say orders are a little bit stronger and

they see improvement, they are all pretty cautious. very few are hiring at this point. if they are, it tends to be temporary or part-time workers. i think we're going to need to see more evidence before we conclude that anything like the recovery we need is under way. host: you can see the rest of the interview with the governor 10:00 tomorrow morning. it is also available online. back to the telephones and our conversation regarding the signs that the recovery -- signs of the recovery in your area. are there signs of recovery? arizona, line for republicans. good morning. caller: i would have to disagree with the caller before. i was laid off during the

recession. period. i did find a new job, but it was at a pay cut. host: where were you working before? caller: i was working in the financial district. i was a credit analyst for be some -- visa. i really liked the job. but when the downturn came, they had to lay off. -- they had to lay me off. i was out of work for a about three or four months. it was hard, but i stuck to it. i applied at many places and that eventually found a new job in the transportation sector. host: do you see your job as a result of the stimulus plan? caller: icn -- i see it as a direct result, yes.

transportation is the first industry to get the benefits from increased spending with the manufacturing because people have to travel around the country. i do think it is from the stimulus. host: will that be a factor when you go to the polls in 2010 and 2012? caller: i will take into consideration. host: michigan on our line for independents. caller: thank you for taking my call. here in michigan, we lost our biggest employer, which is about 4000 jobs. it has been a very sad scene in our local paper. we have between three-six job openings and it is very bad.

they will not make us any type of level playing field with the rest of the world because we make too much money or we do not make the good enough profit for the company spread this company was offered a lot of money to stay here, but they had to leave to go to another country. host: yesterday in the president's speech in north carolina, he said that " we're beginning to turn the corner, but a long way to go." what do you think? caller: we do have a long ways to go. i have a friend that has been out and about and he has worked in the manufacturing industry and he has passed 50 resumes out and he finally got a call. he has to hire underrate him service.

-- he has to hire under a temp service. michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the country right now, 14.1%. we have to have manufacturing in this country. i am sorry, but i paid back in '92, when ross perot said this, goods and services are not going to make growth in this country. host: in the wall street journal this morning, job market picks up, but slowly. their right to -- they wroite -- georgia, on our line for democrats. caller: thank you for taking my call. host: are there any signs of recovery in your area?

caller: we are right outside a for jennings. they're always hiring. most of those jobs are overseas jobs. some of the international companies -- countries that need help. you see a lot of people in this area planning to go overseas to work. there are a lot of restaurants, things like that. this is -- i am originally from connecticut. you hear all the time that to have a surge in the economy is to make a great product. we just got the ipad bridg. we come up with great items that every child could use in a home, it is something that would take maybe a year of a paycheck for some people. if we started pricing air products better, perhaps our economy could grow a little bit

better. that is what i was thinking. host: thank you for your call. we have this twitter message this morning -- our next call comes from the bahamas. good morning. caller: good morning. host: are there signs of recovery. are you seeing signs of recovery from the bahamas here in the united states? caller: i have been in construction. i come to the united states and i have no job to do. i came here for 12 months and i

found nothing to do. host: more stories in the newspapers today as we continue our discussion regarding signs of recovery in your area. this headline from "the washington post" --

back to the telephones. columbia, pa. on our line for independencts. caller: thank you for taking my call. there are some things that i think are looking up, but there is a lot of work that needs to be done. host: tell me about the signs of recovery in pennsylvania. caller: they are revitalizing the businesses in town. they opened up some of the old stores. little business guys are really taking off. keystone cab company, they got the loan for the president --

through the president. there are places that are looking up. jobs are coming back, but very slow. it is going to take time. host: tennessee on our line for republicans. are there signs of recovery in jackson? caller: i am in the restaurant business. fast food places to the dollar menu and diana full-service restaurant. for us to get any kind of customer base, we have to reduce their prices. our costs are not reduced. our president is the worst