Employers added 288,000 people to their payrolls in April, a
stronger-than-expected total that follows big gains in March, the latest
evidence that months of economic recovery without job growth finally have
ended.

"The longest jobless recovery during the post-war period is over,'' said
Sung Won Sohn, chief economist for Wells Fargo & Co. "Businesses have
regained confidence in the sustainability of this economic expansion and
have started to hire people in earnest.''