Please count what kind of jobs are employing.  You will find a huge amount of people working for contract agencies because corporations have cut back and seldom hire full time employees.  Are they counting the illegals and foreign workers too on contract?  The contract agencies in turn give NO BENEFITS or at best poor benefits. No vacation time off paid, no 401K, No heath insurance that is affordable.   Yes, people are working but what for?  Certainly not a real job.