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The pandemic began. let's look at the trend here, john. that is what is really important here. 678,000, we also saw in december and january some revisions upward. that has been the trend, we're under counting consistently every month how well the economy is doing. this is the kind of trend you want to see. we're now fewer than 2 million jobs short of where we began when the pandemic began. this was broad-based hiring. i want to look at the government press release, everything, leisure and hospitality, 17 9,000 jobs there, professional business services, 100,000 there. construction, healthcare,...

Viewing this thinking i remember in the 1970s and 1980s when inflation got into double digits. it's not there yet but this highest rate in 30 years is how low it has been for the last 30 years rather than anything else. but as we were hearing, there is lots of inflationary pressure coming through inflationary pressure coming through in raw material costs. for example, they are up 14.7% in the year to february. then let's look at what is happening to economic growth because of calls that really counts for the chancellor. economic growth is... it's on that it depends what tax he gets in, the mor...

Gained over 400,000. open the first quarter, on average, 562,000 net new jobs added back. those in normal times show strong numbers, they show ahead red hollywood market looking for workers like crazy. the unemployment rate slighting at the worst point of the camp david crash. you had 14.7%. last year it was 6% now falling quickly to 3.521st. 112,000 new jobs. this was the centerpiece where jobs were last. professional services, retail, manufacturing, wages up 5.6%. that's the strongest wage growth year over year. a strong report overall, i was glad to see more than 400,000 people enter the jo...

Expected. that is the trend, hasn't it, as they try to grapple with all this flux. when they go back, they tend to revise them higher a. strong performs at the beginning of the year. if you look at the average it's 552,000 ideaed in the first quarter of this year. in normal times, you would be screaming from the rooftops. we know they're added back after a huge washout at the beginning of the pandemic. the u.s. economy is still down 1.6 million jobs tins epps i since it began. this is 14.7% at the worse. last year, you were still at 6% now 3.6% unemployment. that shows you, people are being hi...

Mean the pandemic is still on, and obviously creating havoc in different parts of the world. i don't think we're free and clear. it feels good, 3.6% unemployment. three years ago was 14.7. we lost 22 million jobs in march and april of 2020, and we got almost all of those jobs back. it's a pretty significant achievement to get back this far this fast, but still more to go. you know, the pandemic is not over, it's still creating problems, and as we know, inflation is now the number one problem that we have to drap l -- grapple with. >> in terms of comparison, how do the jobs compare to the jobs ...