The Labor Department issues its Employment Report for March this morning, with new numbers for job growth and unemployment rate. In other headlines: President Obama signs the JOBS bill into law; Russia's government condemns a prison sentence that's been handed to convicted arms smuggler Viktor Bout; after drifting aimlessly since the tsunami last year, a Japanese freighter ship finally sinks in the Gulf of Alaska; and a U.S. Marine Sergeant is in trouble after criticizing President Obama on Facebook.

New Census data released Thursday shows that the annual rate of growth in American cities has now surpassed that of the suburbs for the first time in 20 years. Lawrence Levy, executive dean of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University, joins us to discuss why that shift is occurring.

It’s Friday, when we talk about movies at The Takeaway. There are a couple very big ones this week, as well some smaller ones. On the big side, we have Titanic 3D, and on the small side, a socially conservative, religious, and very controversial film called “October Baby.” Rafer Guzman and Kristen Meinzer, our Movie Date team, are here as usual. In addition to hosting the podcast, Rafer is film critic for Newsday and Kristen is the culture producer for The Takeaway.

More than 30 years ago, California voters passed a ballot initiative to broaden the reach of the state’s death penalty system. The law was intended to serve as a national model for how capital punishment should function in America. The expansion is called the Briggs Initiative, named after two of the architects of the law: Ron Briggs and his father, former State Senator John Briggs. The text of the law was written by attorney Don Heller. Decades later, Don Heller and Ron Briggs are again advocating for an initiative, but this time they want the state to repeal the death penalty.

China's Communist Party faces a leadership transition this year, and is showing increasing concern about gossip over a foiled coup. The Liberation Army Daily, China's top military newspaper, has warned troops to ignore any rumors they hear and steel themselves for an "ideological struggle" as the Communist Party undergoes changes to its central leadership. Viv Marsh is the Asia-Pacific editor for our partner the BBC.

Every Friday, The Takeaway convenes a panel to look back at the week's big stories. This week we hear more anger stemming from the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, the significance of Mitt Romney's recent primary wins, and what's left of Yahoo after a mass layoff. This week we're joined by author and blogger Jeff Yang, journalist and blogger Farai Chideya and Republican political strategist Ron Christie.

Best-selling author Greg Mortensen has been ordered to pay back $1 million after an investigation has found he diverted money that was donated to his charity. In other headlines: President Obama has signed the JOBS bill into law, a measure that is designed to help businesses raise capital; a Marine Board recommends Sergeant Gary Stein be dismissed with a less-than-honorable discharge after he posted critical comments about President Obama online; the Labor Department will issue its March jobs report this morning; and Russia criticizes a prison sentence that has been handed to convicted arms smuggler Viktor Bout.

The 2012 Masters Golf Tournament at the all-male Augusta National Golf Club, which began Thursday, has sparked discussion about sexism and the legal rights of private organizations. Traditionally, the all-male golf club gives membership to the tournament's corporate sponsors, but for the first time in the club's history, one those CEOs is a woman. Gloria Feldt is the author of "No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power" and former president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, and Nicole Neily is a senior fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum.

After Yahoo! announced yesterday 2,000 job cuts, we look back at past search engines like Archie, AskJeeves and Hotbot. Steven Levy from WIRED magazine joins us to discuss how the idea of search on the Internet has evolved.

Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder issued a memo, assuring the Supreme Court that President Obama respects the authority of the court to overturn federal laws they find unconstitutional. This memo came after Republican challengers to the Affordable Care Act accused the President of pressuring the Court during deliberations. We discuss the controversy with Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law at George Washington University, and Todd Zwillich, Takeaway Washington correspondent.

Do you want to own Peeta Mellark's family bakery or Katniss Everdeen's family home from "The Hunger Games"? You're in luck, the entire town of Henry Mill Village where scenes for District 12 were filmed is on the auction block. The catch? Just make sure you have a cool $1.4 million lying around. Wade Shepherd, the owner of the 72-acre property near Hildebran, North Carolina is putting the town up for sale after the village's recent popularity among fans visiting the now vacant area.

If you could have any prop from any movie, what would you want?

Citizens Medical Center is, by most measures, a respected and respectable hospital. A non-profit, their mission is to serve their community of South Texas. And in their mission, they’ve been mostly successful, appearing on Thomas Reuters’ list of top 100 American hospitals three times over the past decade. 

And yet, the Victoria, Texas hospital has people across the country outraged. The reason: a hiring policy they instituted last year. In short, the policy requires potential employees to have a body mass index below 35. This means that a man who is 5-foot-10 and 245 pounds would not meet the hospital’s hiring requirements.

Weak gun control laws are to blame for the rise in justifiable homicides, an investigation by The Guardian newspaper concludes. A higher rate of this type of killing occurs when that state has permissive gun laws or Stand Your Ground laws. Harry Enten is a writer for The Guardian.