unemployment numbers across the board. the plblack number is 5.7% and e hispanic 3.9% and the asian 2.1% and the overall rate is 3.7%. what that number tells me is we still have work to do particularly in the black community when it comes to the unemployment number. labor force participation ticked down and that is not good news when there is one and a half jobs for every job seeker. and this is in your purview. how much does that worry you? it s a bit of a concern since for a little bit now. and i think that obviously we re still keeping in context of the pandemic. a lot of people left the job market due to the pandemic. we lost a lot of lives during the pandemic so some of those jobs won t be replaced. that is not the number that we re talking about now. we re going into the new year focusing even more intentionally on apprenticeships and working about companies and, a lot of