and for the larger economy. senator, i imagine that 1.3 million, but we re really talking about 4 million under this long-term unemployment benefits group. right. what s the case? what s your case here for extending these benefits and that they will actually help people get back to work? we re treating the entire group as really all the same. shouldn t be there be separate segmented solutions? this is a very large group that are very, very different. well, there s no question that of all we did for the early part of 2014 was to extend unemployment compensation, that wouldn t be enough either for those who are unemployed or for the economy itself. we ve got to do a lot more than that. as soon as we get unemployment compensation done, we should also raise the minimum wage. but there are a whole series of things we have to do after that that focus on creating jobs in the middle class. that should be the theme of the year, the middle class and jobs, because too often the last year