Well the stock market is doing OK with the bummed out labor force. And BTW have you noticed that most things you buy are made with labor somewhere else? Of course, you did. So why are we puzzled when people are not working here?
That puzzles me; I can see no reason that such a high-performing stock-market shouldn't be indicative of the corporations ability to hire... of course it could be the other way around: companies wringing out their people because "you're lucky to have a job in this economy", effectively forcing unpaid overtime and thereby boosting its 'bottom line'.
I would be utterly unsurprised if it came out that all of the stock-market was, at this point, manipulated/projected/imagined numbers... heck, I would be shocked to find that they were truly indicative of how well we're doing.
And of course the MSM and Nancy Pelosi are screaming "recovery for Wall $treet but not Main Street", right?