are fading all over again. martha: so obviously the white house looks at that bigger trend and says look, we're heading in the right direction. slower than anybody wanted it be but maybe we are in sort of a different situation this time around? >> well look the trend line, as far as you know employment benefits is concerned is not going in the right direction for the white house. the trend line has reversed. it is now going up. that is not what the white house wants to see. these are very political numbers and they spell bad political news for president obama. martha: stuart, thank you. we'll see you over at the fox business network shortly. start varney, always a -- stuart varney, always a pleasure. gregg: just to give you an idea how bad the job situation is in this country, 22.8 million people are unemployed or underemployed. the average duration of that unemployment, nearly ten months long. 42.5% of jobless americans have been out of work for six months or more. 7.7 employed, million