ago. that s a faster growth rate than overall nonfarm employment, which is still down 2% from october 2019 and up only 12% from a decade ago. in fact, there are so many truck drivers right now that brokers are able to pit them against each other and worsen conditions. our next guest, secretary of transportation pete buttigieg participated in a white house meeting with members of the biden administration and members of the trucking industry today, including labor leaders. secretary buttigieg helped present what the administration calls a trucking action plan to strengthen america s trucking workforce. and joining us now is transportation secretary pete buttigieg. thank you very much for joining us tonight, mr. secretary. thank you for having me on. god to be with you. i d like to begin with what is the breaking news of this hour, which is the statement from president biden tonight about the build back better act.
against each other and worsening conditions. our next guest secretary of transportation, pete buttigieg participated in white house public meeting with members of the biden administration and members of the trucking industry today. including labor leaders. secretary buttigieg helps with what the administration calls a trucking action plan, to strengthen americans trucking them joining us now is pete buttigieg. thank you so much for joining us tonight secretary. thank you for having me on. i would like to begin with the breaking news of this hour, which is the statement from president biden tonight about the build back better act. he said, just describing his discussions with senator manchin, senator manchin has reiterated his support for build back better funding at the level of the framework plan i announced in september. he said, we will advance this work together over the days and