>> well, actually lawrence, things are worse off. unemployment is a little lower, it's 9.1 as opposed to 9.6 when the book came out in hardback, but the numbers of unemployed and underemployed are higher, about 25 million people are now unemployed and underemployed, but beyond the numbers is the fact that this has been a wasted year when it comes to saving the middle class. not only have we done almost nothing, we've taken measures that are going to make it much harder to turn things around, and we've done things like extending the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans, that are detrimental, and above all, the whole conversation has changed, so instead of focusing on jobs, over the last two years we've actually seen a decrease in the amount of time we've spent discussing the jobs crisis and the skyrocketing increase in the amount of time we spent discussing the deficit crisis. >> arianna, how does our politics miss them, i mean