today's report, bill was one very little sunshine in it. in fact so little, that 34,000 americans simply gave up and went home -- 342,000. we need to do a lot better than that. bill: the labor participation rate is dismal. of the percentage of americans eligible for working the number, 63.6% today. you would have to go back to 1981 before the number is that low. that's remarkable. >> this is a testament to of completely tailed set of -- failed set of labor market policies. this the lowest fraction of americans even trying to work in 3 1/2 decades. we need to put in place policies which encourage businesses to expand, to add to their factories, to add to their payrolls. we're not seeing that kind of attempt. we'll likely see more calls for temporary stimulus. we're in the fourth year of that failed experiment. time to try to go back to the principles that gave us 3 and 400,000 jobs in the