elise gould is a labor economist at the economic policy institute, a research center that gets fundingm organized labor, and our own lisa desjardins, who covers economic policy on capital hill. lisa, let me start with you. you heard the president say that looking at thibs report, america's economic comeback has gun. do you see that in this report? >> not yet. it ctainly is a welcome surprise that the top line numbers started to turn around, but it would be a mistake to think it is now time for policy-maker to ff the valve and stop providing aid to workers, their families necessary aid to state and local governments. we still have a long way to go. >> reporter: the consensus of economists was that we would set r drop in payroll, in jobs. do you explain, or when you look at the numbers, what does it tell you to explain this increasef o 2.5 million? >> it is a bit of a puzzle, solutely. many economists did not expect this. i think there's a couple ofs. fact one is the initial unemployment insurance claims came in around 10 million between the reference period in april and the reference pe