covid, and what it will be like in workplaces and ensuring their own safety. there are still challenges as it relates to child care, elder care. reporter: the fast food chain raising canes, is deploying half its corporate staff to cook and sell chicken fingers instead. we could clearly use about 10,000 more crew members. reporter: a.j. kymara is coc.e.o. we have about 150 restaurants that cannot fully function, meaning there hours are reduced or sales channel reduced, all of that, because we re not fully staffed. reporter: the white house looked for good news in today s report. the unemployment rate among black americans fell by nearly a full percentage point. but that s partly because so many black women have left the workforce altogether. i would like to see it faster. reporter: president biden noted that the jobs numbers released today were gathered in mid-september, when the number of new daily covid cases was 60%