Unemployment Rate Dips to 7.3 Percent
TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. I'm Jake Tapper. Now, it's time for the money lead. Let's start with the latest report card on the economy. The Labor Department says the U.S. added 169,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate dropped to 7.3 percent. That's just a hair. But that might not necessarily be such good news. Think about this thing -- it's called the labor participation rate. The percentage of people who either have a job or who are looking for a job -- that fell to just over 63 percent. That's the lowest level in 35 years and some economists blame that on a lack of good jobs. Soon it might be hard to tell where the phone ends and the pad begins. Reports say Apple is thinking of a wider iPhone, with a screen of up to six inches. That's inches more than the iPhone 5. The wide iPhone is still in the planning stages but Apple clearly doesn't like having its bell rung by Samsung. The Korean company surged in the smartphone market, in part because you don't have to squint to read the screen. Now to the buried lead. It was a reunion more than 50 years and one civil rights movement in the making. Ruby Bridges was only 6-years- old back in 1960. She was one of the first African-American children to attend a white school in New Orleans. It was a scary time, with racist backlash. And she needed protection from a federal marshal. The story inspired a Norman Rockwell painting. And 50 years later, that child and her protector met again. Ruby and Charles Burks, now 91 years old, met for the first time since that day. The meeting between the two was filmed, that will be part of an exhibit at an Indianapolis museum. Coming up, one retired Army general is calling it a war the Pentagon doesn't want. I'll ask two veterans what they think about attacking Syria. And in politics, when Joe Biden starts a sentence with words like "my staff told me not to do this", you know it's going to be good. Stay with us.