Recession?

1)RECESSION is the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year.2)Is the American economy heading toward a recession? ABC World News business correspondent Betsy Stark talks about the disappointing report that the nation only added 18,000 jobs last month.
Bill Blakemore: Betsy, is 18,000 far off the mark of what is considered healthy?
Betsy Stark: Oh, it’s way off the mark of what’s considered healthy. You need about 100,000 jobs to just absorb all the new people who come into the job market every month looking for work. So this really is a bleak number. And the other thing that happened was there was a 3/10th of a percent jump in the unemployment rate to 5%. So put those two things together and it’s really flashing recession3)I don't think that us is entereing because the estate of decline is no enough to tell that the nation is recession.