The Department of Labor reports 290,000 jobs were created in April but the overall unemployment rate actually rose to 9.9 percent. So how encouraging are the additional jobs? What should the numbers look like now that the economy has grown substantially for the past two quarters? What is the ‘real’ unemployment rate when factoring in part-time workers who would like to be full-time and those who have given hopes of finding work? How will the new health care laws stifle job creation? And how does the immigration debate influence the jobs picture? We ask Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the Department of Labor and former chief of staff for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.