Econ 101: Employment is up and so are wages as the economy claws back ground lost in the Great Recession. The economy added 215,000 new jobs last month, according to the Labor Department, and people who gave up looking are re-entering the job market and finding work.

The news isn’t all great. Lower wage workers are still struggling to get ahead and there’s still a drag on factory jobs that provide a good living for people without a college degree. And it could be bad news for the really poor as 22 states return to their pre-recession food stamp time limits and employment requirements. A million people could lose food stamps in the next year.

Night of the Living Dead: A story in the NY Times today describes Donald Trump as a “zombie” candidate for president — he’s the unelectable walking dead, but also unstoppable.

President Obama took on the zombie yesterday for his opinions about nuclear weapons in Asia. He said Trump, “doesn’t know much about foreign policy or nuclear policy or the Korean Peninsula or the world generally.”

Trump has said he would encourage Japan and South Korea to have their own nuclear weapons to deter North Korea. Obama said, “Even those countries that are used to a carnival atmosphere in their own politics want sobriety and clarity when it comes to U.S. elections because they understand that the president of the United States needs to know what’s going on around the world.”

Nation: A knife purportedly found on the grounds of OJ Simpson’s former home in Los Angeles when it was being torn down has been determined not to the be weapon used in 1994 to kill the football star’s ex wife and a young man at her home.

Hoop Dreams: The NCAA’s Final Four play tonight. Villanova goes first against Oklahoma followed buy North Carolina v. Syracuse. The championship is Monday.

Watch Villanova. They beat the No. 3 Miami by 23 points and eliminated No. 1 Kansas.

Sweet Home: Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley appears to have lost his dignity but, so far, not his job after reports that he had an affair with a married aide. It’s a story that has sex, money, and corruption. As one reporter said, “It’s got every part of a scandal you could want.”

While Bentley the 73-year-old Bentley denies any impropriety, the much younger aide, Rebekah Mason resigned this week to spend more time with her family, the reason given by politicos in trouble.

Bentley abruptly divorced last summer after 50 years of marriage and no one knew why. Then, after a spat with the governor, the state’s former top police officer revealed the affair. Recordings of graphic phone calls between the governor and Mason were revealed. Some of the conversations were held over disposable “burner” cellphones.

It’s not determined that the Republican Bentley broke any laws, but for a family values politician in the deep South, he certainly crossed the line.

Barney Speaks: In an interview with Isaac Chotiner for Slate magazine, former Massachusetts representative Barney Frank is characteristically blunt about Bernie Sanders (not a fan), Donald Trump (him neither), and also about American voters. He said, “I am disappointed by the voters who say, ‘OK I’m just going to show you how angry I am!’ And I’m particularly unimpressed with people who sat out the Congressional elections of 2010 and 2014 and then are angry at Democrats because we haven’t been able to produce public policies they like. They contributed to the public policy problems and now they are blaming other people for their own failure to vote, and then it’s like, ‘Oh look at this terrible system,’ but it was their voting behavior that brought it about.”

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