AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on April Jobs Report

Washington DC–(ENEWSPF)– The addition of 290,000 jobs in April, the fourth consecutive monthly gain, is a hopeful sign, if it can be sustained, that real employment growth is finally underway.  Still, we face an enormous challenge to get out of the more than 11-million job hole that was opened by the Great Recession that began in 2007.

Even the rise in the unemployment rate to 9.9 percent reflects a positive trend, because it means that…