steady at 3.6%. so the good news here impressive job growth and wages are still on the rise. the bad news? stubborn inflation. prices are up more than wages, and that is leading to a lot of dread about where the u.s. economy is headed. the latest cnn poll found 77% of americans say economic conditions are poor. that is the worst outlook in a decade. so we will be listening for how the president tries to assuage economic fears and frustrations which could be pivotal in the midterms. let s go to cnn s matt eagan in washington. first, give us the full break down of the april numbers. the jobs market remains strong. 428,000 jobs added in april. the expectation was that job growth would slow down to the weakest pace in a year. that did not happen. in fact, over just this year, we have 2 .1 million jobs that have been added to the labor market. that is very impressive. growth given the fact that there s the shortage of workers. we saw broad-based hiring. jobs were added in leisur
evacuate civilians. they said one person was killed, six wounded. let me turn to cnn s scott mclean who is in lviv. i understand you re learning that russian state media reported some people escaped that steel factory. what do you know? reporter: yeah, that is true, victor. so this is according to russian state media, who says that 25 people have managed to make it out of the steel factory, including five children. there is new video that cnn cannot verify at this stage that shows some smaller buses, people getting off them and getting transferred onto a larger coach. now, it was unclear whether this is part of the u.n. and red cross effort to get people out, but there are no u.n. vehicles, there s no red cross vehicles shown in any of these videos. so it seems like this is a unilateral effort on the part of russia. you ll recall that russia had previously said that they would allow civilians to get out of the plant yesterday, today and also tomorrow during basically duri