proliferation of help wanted signs in retail stores and experienced much longer waits at our favorite strrestaurants tha usual because they re understaffed. in april four million people quit the workforce according to the labor department. what is the solution to the vast worker shortage? let s bring in cnn economics and neal bradley, the executive vice president for the u.s. chamber of commerce. great to have both of you. catherine, it is a real workers market right now. the idea that four million people quit their jobs in april, are they right? is that if right calculation that they will be able to do better at a different job? well, i think it shows that people feel confident that they have other opportunities out there. if you look at surveys from a few months ago, there were a lot of worker who is said they expected to be changing their field or changing their occupation, and it looked like that was of necessity, right? if you were a retail worker or a restaurant staffer maybe y