PBS NewsHour Rosier-than-expected jobs report doesn’t improve outlook for long-term jobless We asked Northeastern University economist Barry Bluestone what he made of the numbers. BARRY BLUESTONE, Northeastern University: On balance, this was a good report today, over 200,000 people back to work. We have got the unemployment rate down from 7.3 percent to 7 percent. That’s all good news. Of course, many of those were federal […]