. >> bruce lashan, thank you very much. >>> we do have some positive news to report on the state of our economy. new unemployment figures show that 100,000 people went back to work last month. alexis chris christoforous shows us how this could fight off a recession. reporter: 32-year-old jason croft has been out of work for months. >> i just recently resigned another unemployment and i'm waiting on it. reporter: croft is one of the millions still out of work. new figures out today show the unemployment rate remained at 9.1% in september even though employers added 103,000 jobs, that's better than most analysts expected. but jason and others who joined the ranks at the occupy wall street protests don't feel the small month-to-month differences. unemployment has been stuck near or above 9% for more than two years. >> by seeing the way the market goes and i've seen the way between the crashes and the debt crisis and all that. i wasn't really surprised at all. reporter: the frustration felt on wall street is spreading and now protests like this one are popping up all across the country. fro