a. real unemployment held at 13.9% in april. what is that number real unemployment? it represents the total unemployed and part-time workers who want to be full time and people not in the labor force but they desperately want a job. the 165,000 jobs added in april is nowhere near the 250,000 we need every month for a genuine recovery. president obama s campaign promise of creating 12 million jobs in four years, remember that promise, our economy simply isn t growing fast enough. there are some bright spots, home values are up, earlier this week the case shiller index showed home prices jumped 9.3% from a year ago, the stock market is pushing higher, friday