Employment (or lack thereof) update

Still not too much news on the job front, but as usual, I’m always hopeful. More and more interesting jobs in the paper, but still no-one seems to be hiring. I actually just read that Connecticut’s recovery from the current recession is going to be a jobless recovery.
“What’s that?” you ask? “A jobless recovery?” Well, according to the paper, it means that instead of all those jobs that disappeared at the start of and during the recession won’t be coming back. For example, they said that there were like 2,500 new hirings in the first quarter of this year. There were like 600 for the second quarter.
Is it just me, or is that a sign? A really, really, REALLY BAD SIGN?????