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Interesting is called the quit rate. people are willing to quit their job because they can find their jobs. nobody is willing to quit that job because they now they won't find another job. people will understand, even if they are working that the job market is terrible. >> sean: shouldn't it come down to simple numbers. one in six americans are in poverty. we can understand that. 47-48 million americans on food stamps. $5.4 trillion in debt, no shovel-ready jobs. the one statistic i read. 26 million americans underemployed? >> it sure tells you something about the economy, we have the worst ec...

>> they know what is going on and they know the job market is worse than what you read in the headline of 8.1%, which is misleading number unfortunately. the real problems are greater than that. one thing that is interesting is the quit rate. what that is, is people willing to quit their job because they can find other jobs. that may have been a record low. snob willing to cut the jobs, quit their job because they know they won't find another job. >> andrea: he goes on to explain in the editorial that is a reason we saw. >> greg: two things he mentioned, the quit rate is a real bright spot for...

Interesting is called the quit rate. people are willing to quit their job because they can find their jobs. nobody is willing to quit that job because they now they won't find another job. people will understand, even if they are working that the job market is terrible. >> sean: shouldn't it come down to simple numbers. one in six americans are in poverty. we can understand that. 47-48 million americans on food stamps. $5.4 trillion in debt, no shovel-ready jobs. the one statistic i read. 26 million americans underemployed? >> it sure tells you something about the economy, we have the worst ec...

Improving just a little bit. so there is, i mean, it sounds -- we tend to have really focus on the gloom and doom, but there are some glimmers of hope and positive news in the labor force today. >> you know, that's interesting, because i haven't seen that quit rate versus layoff rate get any attention, so i'm glad you brought it up here. give us the bad news now. obviously, there are still tough times for a lot. >> yeah, well the bad news is that the 8.6% unemployment rate. that is just historically, extraordinarily high. i think one of the things we've missed is just how bad this set of circu...