HARI SREENIVASAN:

We wanted to follow up tonight on yesterday's unemployment report.

The government reported that 142,000 jobs were created last month, well below most expectations.

Even so, the unemployment rate dropped from 6.2 percent to 6.1 percent, in large part, because what's known as the participation rate fell.

In other words, even more Americans dropped out of the workforce. For more about all this, we're joined from Washington by Sudeep Reddy, an economics editor at the Wall Street Journal.

So, one of the articles in the Journal said that 60,000 people dropped out of the labor force last month.

Put that into perspective for us.