If this is true, they must be expecting millions of jobless to become discourage and leave the workforce as they’ve been reporting for 3 years. The improvement certainly isn’t going to come from an increase in the number of jobs unless the government is going on a hiring spree. Perhaps all of this year’s college grads will help out the unemployment stats by going to graduate school and staying out of the work force.
I suspect that this summer we'll have a surge in hiring of folks to work the Occupy XXXX protests, followed by hiring of people to be "poll watchers". All government "jobs" of course, but they will indeed count.