You do the math....

I see everywhere (in the gov't. controlled media) that the economy is "picking up"; that people are going back to work. They just released the figures showing that 177,000 people went back to work last month.
If this is so, how did the (gov'ts. numbers) unemployment rate go UP from 9.7% to 9.9% in this same period ? What am I missing ???
Of course, you understand that out of that 177,000, a large amount are temporary workers taking the census and their jobs will vanish soon. Most of the rest of these people have taken "any job" because their benefits have finally run out.
Perhaps, that's the answer...stop all unemployment benefits and people will find jobs.