Next Economy Notes - Jobs Week

As a lead up to Friday's monthly jobs report, a report issued by ADP offers disappointing jobs numbers for private companies in April. Businesses added only 119,00 jobs in April, well short of the number anticipated by economists.

However, as a sign of how muddled things are in this space at the moment, the Gallup Job Creation Index is at a four year high.

A Fitch analysis indicates the stimulus is 'driving the recovery.'

The Obama Campaign goes on offense on clean energy.

The Economic Policy Institute has a great graph that examines growing income inequality. Much more data available here.

In case you missed it, the entire Frontline series on the global financial crisis is available here.