That s higher than the previous month. why? 184,000 people came out of the shadows, out of the sidelines and started looking for a job. that meant the labor market got a little bigger, so the unemployment rate ticked up. let me show you the sectors. health care, this has been a strong performer consistently. 43,000 jobs there. food services, bars and restaurants, manufacturing had a bit of reversal and posted job gains there. that s been one area of the economy lagging as you know. we saw 17,000 manufacturing jobs added. fascinating to see that tick back up. christine, thank you very much. stick around, we ll play you clips from this new documentary about debby reynolds and her daughter carey fisher. this is how hollywood remembers these two legends after their death. we ll talk about this next.
i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s plunging in the polls and in need of a boost. will a new plan help rick perry climb back to the top of the republican race? his rival, herman cain, is leading the pack according to a brand new poll and perry is a distant fifth with cain apparently benefitting from his 9-9-9 tax plan, perry today unveiled his own new tax plan and 20 is the magic number. he proposes a flat tax of 20% for individuals and corporations, but in a twist, perry would let people choose to pay his flat tax rate or file under the current system, which he derived. the size of the current code is more than 72,000 pages. that s represented by this palate right over here and the reams of paper. that s what the current tax code looks like. the best representation of my plan is this postcard. this is is size of what we re talking about right here. taxpayers will be able to fill this out and file their taxes on that.
And tucked them under the system and pushed down hard on the detonat detonator, and so three years later with the economy lagging, and sputter, wall street is doing great. not just in terms of the profits, because those are looking really good or paydays are looking even better, they are also back on top in the city that should probably hate them the most, washington. congress might have hated voting for t.a.r.p. and the crisis may have cost a lot of the politicians their jobs, but when you are as rich as wall street, you can convince a lot of people to forget and forgive. recently, reports are that obama is cozying back up to wall street and calling them and going to see them and win the all important financial backing in 2012. but as the new york times andrew sor kin reported, wall street doesn t want phone calms and flowers, but legislation. they are getting it. sorkin s recent column described certain business practices