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They might be idle, but they're certainly not rich. a record number of able-bodied workers, mostly men are opting out of work. you've heard of the great resignation. the term was coined during the pandemic to describe the phenomenon of millions of people quitting or changing jobs to improve their pay and lifestyles. yet, despite more than a year of critical job openings and rising pay, millions are still not working or even seeking work. their absence is compounding the labor shortage causing supply chain problems and price spikes. a record 4.5 million americans quit their jobs in november. an...

To look into the numbers a little bit more, but, you know, some areas of, you know, i don't know what the labor force participation number came in as -- >> little chged. >> yeah, so that's one of the big areas that is problematic. labor force participation was around3%, over 63% before the pandemic. and it is still around 61% or so, 61.9% if unchanged. that means, you know, you don't have that full throttle economy because more people are out of the economy than in it. >> this summer was revised down a bit. it was big and strong. i also think there is this disconnect with how people feel and w...

Republican recall effort turned out to be, what a waste of 200 and $76 million, it turned out to be for the people of california. who consider that governor newsom was first elected governor in california in 2018 in 2018, he won by a gigantic margin, he won the governorship in 2018 with 61.9% of the vote. last night in the recall, all avoids are not in, yet they will still be coming in for the next few weeks actually. but lastly in the recall, the don't recall gavin newsom, vote looks like it may have been even larger than the vote to elect him in the first place. as of right now the don't rec...

State very democratic. what happened in 2020, joe biden 63.5%. what happened in the last race, 61.9%. so overperforming on a percentage basis. you can go county by county and see where the apathy didn't happen, the surge didn't happen. you can pull up the counties where newsom underperformed what he did in 2018 you see one. and that is a very small county. you see where he overperformed, six counties. he overperformed more than underperformed. that's the story why gavin newsom had a victory overnight. we have voter data in here, but i want to pull up some of the exit polling data we had. you h...

Race has been called. gavin newsom will remain governor. he's 2.5 million votes ahead. but look at the percentage. 63.9%. track back to, say, last year. joe biden won the state very handlily, gavin newsom percentage above what joe biden's was in a nearly 30-point victory. in 2018, 61.9%. obviously there are still more votes to come in. it underscores the big concern. democratic apathy, perhaps a surge in independent reporters, breaking hard towards recalling the governor. none of those things happened near the scale that would have been necessary in this very blue state to knock off gavin news...