so we stay at 6.3. it is a business of a downer if you look at what we did last month, washwe did 288,000 jobs but not bad. no too bad. we re oaf 200,000. that obviously is a really good benchmark for us. you re right, now knot as great as last month. a printy good recovery from a flat first quarter, right? absolutely. i mean, the expectations are is that the economy is improving, the labor market continues to improve. auto sales have been very strong lately, manufacturing seems to be picking up as well. so i think there were some expectations that you re going to get that spring or at least early summer at this point snapback in the economy after we were all snowed in and it had a dramatic impact on the economy. things seem to be improving a bit. scott, let me explain something. scottie, we always have to apologize to people we throw to and your name, scott, is
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block. resident there is want to kick her to the curb. they believe traffic will be a nightmare. thank you, tucker. there are strong economic numbers. the national unemployment rate falling to 6.3% in april. the 288,000 jobs created but startling new data from the senate budget committee raising new concerns at the state of the economy overall. one in six american men between the ages of 25 and 54 are not working. that s a record high. here to break down the figures and what they mean to the u.s. economy going forward is the professor of entrepreneurship of this university. thank you for coming. so many men are looking for work. the unemployment statistics are misleading if you look at the number of people who left the labor force. so people who give up works and just don t look for a job are not counts as unemployed.