answer. people were given a lot of money during the pandemic, a lot of stimulus checks, unemployment insurance, they still have health concerns and a lot don't want to go back to the old jobs they had. you can see on this chart notwithstanding that we had 6.4 million jobs created last year compared to an estimate of 4.7. if you look back, this chart goes back to 1951. it is 50% more jobs than have ever been created in a single year. to your point, there's still 10.6 million open jobs in this country, a record number of jobs. >> wow. >> and 2.3 million people have left the labor force, all to your point, not actively looking. let's look before you finish on a couple of noneconomic things that happened last year to president biden. so first we all know build back better isn't passing, but you can see in this chart a way to sort of look at the overall picture which is the fact congress has been doing less and less every year. if you go back to the 1980s it was passing 230 bill as year.