recent arrivals here to this country. experts point to three reasons very quickly for the numbers that we are typically sing. there are more retirements happening. boomers are aging out of the work source. also a lot of public-sector workers are walking away. many of them because of vaccine mandates. there are also fewer employees returning to their jobs that they had pre-covid. a lot of them are choosing to stay home with family and others are still getting unemployment assistance and other resources and perhaps most notably experts say the labor pool is shrinking overall. some condos have been forgetting that for quite some time. >> shannon: all right. we have an important day coming up you and i. >> fruitcake. >> shannon: people are fired up. we will talk about that when we take from the hard news in just a minute. thanks, kevin. the confirmation of progressive prosecutor rachel rollins as u.s. attorney for massachusetts draws the higher of g.o.p. lawmakers tonight.