is very important. one of the reasons, one of the barriers between people in the job market. the virus is not vanquished from the land. the efforts of the team here have been tremendously important kicking up that vacs rate. that is one issue where the rescue plans finger prints are on the strong labor market results. neil: you mentioned the covid and the vaccination progress. it s proven to be a key negotiating feature in the discussion for infrastructure. the president is open to use $70 billion for that to pay for the infrastructure package. republicans want more. close to $700 billion. do you see a significant increase in tapping covid funds to close the potential infrastructure deal? i think the infrastructure deal needs to be viewed separately from the rescue plan in the sense that the resources in there are as i have been
a lot of national pride about the way these games have gone so far. they feel like they ve been successful and we are just a few days away from the closing ceremony on sunday. ari? indeed. msnbc s chris jansing, thank you as always for your reporting. reporter: sure. now i want to tell you a thing you might want to read today. it is from the economist, a report on new research that finds an economic benefit to regulations to combat climate change. researchers compared labor market results in counties that had cut air pollution under a 1970 law to counties that didn t. people in the counties with the regulations made about $4,000 more in income after you control for other variables. interesting piece of the economic puzzle. that is up on our facebook page. you can let us know what you think. head to facebook/jansing.