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were actually revise slightly lower. so the month of april came in at 165,000. march came in at 310,000. >> so this is strong, not quite as strong as this monster month, this month, but it did pick back up at a time when we were actually expecting things to start to simmer a little bit more. >> so taking a look at unemployment. so this is interesting because for the first time, since january of 2024, we actually saw the unemployment rate top 4%. so take a look, so we have been sub 4% all the way back the january 2024, 2022 excuse me exactly. so we have been in that tight range through the years and now we have now tip this. so the curious thing to watch here is, is this the beginning of a trend higher, higher, higher, higher, right? because we had been expecting that slowed down. if you take a look at wages and this is part of the reason if you look at futures right now, they're actually solidly lower futures. pick or went down because wages