First Jobs Report of 2016: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
19 February 2016
Aparna Mathur, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses the January jobs report, why we see a high teenage unemployment rate and not much movement in the long-term unemployed, and what the report means for America.
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