you had more people looking for work. companies are not laying off, not letting go of the workers, they need to find more workers. there is maybe some distortion there where these numbers could be stronger if you had more workers available to take these jobs. brianna? bring john harwood into the conversation. the hiring may be cooling off, but guess who told us this week that would happen, john harwood? no coincidence, right? exactly. and from the president, i will say, yes. the preszident of the united states. wall street may have wanted an even lower number to show more cooling off, as christine was saying a moment ago. but from a white house point of view, this is not bad. you if you re concerned about recession, and significant number of people have been expressing concern about recession, this does not indicate that a recession is on 390,000 is a lot. on the other hand, it is cooling a bit. you do have some more people entering the labor force, so more prospect of