very hard for people to pay their bills and to get by. >> what is the -- should there be a better correlation? in so many years of reporting this, you would think that low unemployment means higher wages. high stock market performance means that otherwise things are ticking in the economy. greater gdp means that economic activity is such that people should be feeling more prosperous. we haven't had a recession in ten years, and, yet, there are some people who feel because of their wage stagnation that something is wrong with this economy that is otherwise healthy looking. >> the best explanation for what's going on, ali, goes like this. yes, we have growing prosperity, our gdp, so our measure of how much income and revenue and profits in the economy is expanding, that economic pie is growing. but the share of that pie that is going to workers, that is going to labor has been decreasing. it really fell during the great recession, and it just has not