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Now there are more jobs than people and we have some stats we are going to put up on the screen. right now 223,00 223,000 jobs ad in may. labor participation rate has gone up as well. so, if people want to find a job, there are jobs out there. also, at the same time, mark, i understand the administration has clamped down on food stamp fraud. >> yes. the administration is doing a great deal of work both at the federal and the state level. as you may know in april of this year. the president signed an executive order strength the workforce requirement across all the agencies, including the usda ...

Strong 3.8% stunning. 62.7% labor participation rate could be better. but, kayleigh, the numbers are strong. the president still under 50. but getting closer in terms of approval. >> it's huge. and democrats are running scared from those numbers you just saw up on the screen. and they should be for good reason. you know, this president his economic successes are spanning. most under reported number of the trump presidency, that's millennials. zogby poll 50% support among liberals. that's extraordinary. cnn poll showed 10% shift in millennials towards the president. why, you ask? because this g...

>> $1,000 goes a lot farther in other parts of the country than in new york where we're sitting but the reality is the labor force is down to 62.7% which is the same level of el salvador and the dominican republic. it's a low that for some reason our leaders are not acknowledging. the $1,000 a month according to roosevelt institute would create 4.5 million jobs because people would have more money to spend. it would be a system loss of our regional economies and would help get places around the country much more on their feet and dynamic and mobile. >> look, it's a big concept, but when we eve...

Want given the financial situation that they're in. i would also point out here, revisions to prior months, the last two months an additional 3,000 jobs. the best perform aing areas of e economy, professional and business services added 46,000 jobs, manufacturing added 31,000 jobs, construction jobs another 24,000, and health care-related jobs, 30,000. labor force participation, that's the last big one, same as it was the prior month, 62.7%. generally speaking a more positive jobs report, but i would point out this is now probably some of the slower gains that we've seen in job growth over the...

Average the last three months, smooth it out, you get about 162,000 jobs added per month. that's decent and it's a sign that things are picking um. jives with the record high stocks we're seeing and the rising consumer confidence, joe. >> sarah, tell us about the job participation rate. this is obviously something that economists look at. we have a 4.1% unemployment rate, but we've had very low job participation rate for years now. what happened over the past month? >> sad to report that that actually fell over the last month, down to 62.7%. we're still hovering near the lowest levels in decad...