insurance, we have to raise the minimum wage. we have to do these other things to help people feel better about the job market in the naerm. the job picture is improving but not enough that the white house will abandon some of their major, you know their marriage priorities for the year in terms of job including the unemployment benefits extension and raising the minimum wage. >> can i mention a couple of statistics. i don't want to accentuate the negative too much either. a couple of statistics to be worried about, christine. one is if you look at the long term unemployed. >> still too high. >> those are people unemployed for more than 26 weeks. second of all, if you look at what happened with hours worked that actually declined. that's troubling. as the economy picks up and as people -- as employers start hiring more workers you expect the number of hours worked nobody creation. they decreased. one other final statistic, there are 2 million fewer people in