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America has a labor problem. it is that simple. we have -- there are too many incentives not to work. i heard your debate with austan and steve moore earlier in the hour. the fact is delta variant is a problem but when you pay people more to stay home than they would by going to work you get people to stay home. >> sandra: the number of job openings is 10.5 million job openings. >> it is growing. two months ago it was 9.5, now it's 10.5. there are incentives for staying at home. there need to be incentives for going to work. the other thing about these disincentives for working is when you hav...

That really showed there are other issues going on out here. some people don't want to return to the office. many people don't want to return to -- i hate to call them menial, but to low wage jobs they consider to be more like treasury and because households have a fair amount of cash right now because they couldn't spend like they would normally last year and because of the government stimulus checks they're in a position to not rush back to work and that's what's happening americans are not rushing back to work for these reasons and that's creating a labor problem for businesses around the c...

See clouds on the horizon that could disrupt this economic picture. one is what you just mentioned. inflation. i'm seeing it here in the washington, d.c., area with higher gas prices, higher lumber prices, higher airline prices, grocery prices are going up. that's a tax on people living on fixed incomes. the other thing to worry about in my opinion is a labor problem. it's getting more and more difficult for those small businesses to get their workers back on the job. i think that's because we are paying it too much unemployment benefits. 24 republican governors are saying we don't want the im...

That the children are going through, but also that the workers are going through. this is as much a labor problem -- the issue as southwest key is many problems wrapped up in one. >> john, you have been photographing the border migrant crisis since, what the bush administration? >> well, really in the last ten years. >> so have you seen anything change? what have you seen over time? >> well, over time there have been more families coming across. this was really the case starting in 2014 when people were coming from honduras, salvador and guatemala. it's just increased over time. the difference...

They denied that. so i handed my resignation letter in stating that reason. >> i want to read what a spokesperson said. it says "our staff have great expertise in dealing with this population, we have very high professional development standards." what do you think? do you agree with that assessment? >> look at the job boards. look how many times they've looked for a program director, an assistant program director. any city which has a southwest key facility is flooded, flooded with job postings. and also job reviews which kind of show not only the horror of that the children are going through...