wages will get people back to work, especially front line workers. president biden in illinois thursday saying mandates work. they cut the number of unvaccinated americans by a third from 95 million people to 67 million. i m calling on more employers to act. my message is require your employees to get vaccinated. with vaccinations we re going to beat this pandemic finally. for without them we face endless months of chaos in our hospitals, damage to our economy, and anxiety in our schools, and empty restaurants, and much less commerce. a key report today on the job situation, economists predict half a million jobs were added back to the economy in the month and the jobless rate slipped to 5.1%. remember, august jobs growth was the slowest since january. 500,000 jobs in september would be more than double august report. perspective here, the economy is still down 5.3 million jobs since the pandemic began.