america s job machine is going stronger than ever, a strong recovery and opportunity for hard working women and men if all across great country. america is back to work. even with the extraordinary news, even with historic economic progress we ve made across the past year, we still have a lot of work to do making sure every american has a job is a great start, but it s not the finish. we still need to ease the burden on working families by making everyday things her if affordable and accessible more affordable and accessible. look, average people are getting clobberedded by the cost of everything today. gas prices at the pump if are up. we re working to bring them down, but they re up. food prices are up. working to bring them down as well. rachel: he s right, those prices are up. take a look at this. we have first of all, there s a seven-year high on gasoline.