there are factors that explain that, including the holiday, with the fourth of july, and some confusion about autoplants in the midwest and in the southeast. but that s the number, inching back toward 400,000. 386 is the mark today. 15 minutes past the hour. unemployment is still way too high all across the country. so i expect this to be a working group in which we are coming up with some concrete deliverables. if we find things that this group with help us on and we can work on together, then we can build on that success, and in the aggregate over time this would have made a difference at a critical juncture in our economy. jamie: that was february of last year at the first meeting, independent panel, business leaders charged with finding ways to create jobs for our country.