an odd reluctance for some american workers to get back at it. the administration is blaming the pandemic, a number of things. the reasons for this, why people have not gone back to take jobs. critics say vaccine mandates are a factor here and the unemployment benefits are hurting. the president made brief remarks on the report. he left the room, didn t take any questions on the economy or the report. he insists progress is being made. jobs up, wages up, unemployment down. that s progress. martha: here now, andy puzder from cke restaurants and author of time to let america work again. mollie hemmingway from the federalist and a fox news contributor. great to have you with us. andy, obviously the president is going to try to put this in the best light possible when he looks at these numbers. but he says it s progress. he likes the fact that the unemployment number is lower. what is your take? number 1, we missed numbers two months in a row by a lot. in fact, the econom
won t answer them, won t come to them. won t be intrigued by the generous pay benefits and incentives that companies are offering them. fox on top of something strange going down to peter doocy at the white house on how the administration is trying to digest all of this. peter? neil, the administration says the biden plan is working. after all, they re adding jobs instead of losing jobs. the labor secretary says the pandemic just has some people thinking more about a work life balance, so those people they believe to be in between jobs. for president biden s part, he says a lot of what you might here about gloomy news with the economy is just bad coverage. listen to this. things in washington as you know are noisy. turn on the news, every conversation is a confrontation. every disagreement is a crisis. when you take a step back and look at what is happening, she s made real problem. i would like to see faster progress. something else that we re hearing from administrati
Friday, october 8, 2021. the story goes on. we ll see you back here monday at 3:00. your world starts right now. have a great weekend. neil: welcome to your world. i m neil cavuto. we have a conundrum on our hands. we have 11 million job openings in our country. but we had only 190,000 americans taking advantage of that in the latest month. here s the thing. we were expecting at least 500,000 to do so. what could explain that? how is it that an economy that has so many employers looking to hire so many potential employees that they can t find them or the workers they re trying to find