month, just to keep even with population growth. bill: we re not near that, are we. not at all. and it s not not so long ago, that, you know, people were thinking tlirp going to get an increase in their tax rate not to harp on education, if you have a bachelor s degree, the unemployment rate is 4.2%, and without a high school degree it is over 14% and it is tough for employers to get skilled workers, right now. and that is important to look at as well, who s out of work. bill: how discouraged is the worker who has been out of work, eric, for 12 months? 18 months? because, they are not showing up in this number and that is why the unemployment number went down to 9% from 9.4. interestingly enough, sorry to interrupt, they ve redefined what it means to be long term unemployed. 43.8% of all of our unemployed are now unemployed for more than 27 weeks. and more and more are unemployed