income. what we've seen is wages are gone up. now, the problem in the last year or to so, six, nine months or so has been the trade policy uncertainty, in my view. and i know larry kudlow doesn't want to admit this, but i think it's affected investment, and that has got us back down to 2% growth. the question is now will it bump back up to 2.5 or maybe even 3. >> i think it would definitely drive it back up. i mean, the thing that was so surprising, every month the jobs reports come out not as strong as a year ago but, nonetheless, still exceeding economists expectations. it is an extraordinary phenomenon. paul: well, and people are coming off the sidelines. you know, people who had decided it's easier to work than take government benefits better. still ahead, the supreme court hears oral arguments in one of its biggest cases of the term with the justices weighing president trump's authority to end obama era protections for so-called dreamers.