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Good morning. Good morning. My name is Megan Van Hutton and i am the director of media and external communications here at the chamber. Welcome to our annual labor day press briefing. First, i have up here randy johnson, our Senior Vice President for labor and Employee Benefits and jd foster, our Senior Vice President for Economic Policy and chief economist. They will each speak for about 15 minutes, and then we will open it up for q a. And you can ask your questions then. So, without further a do, i will pass it over to jd foster. Mr. Foster thank you for coming. Its a pleasure to have you wi...

Mr. Foster thank you for coming. Its a pleasure to have you with this. Also my colleague randy johnson. And for those suffering from hurricane harvey, we wish them on behalf of the chamber all the safety and the swiftest possible recovery from what they are dealing with. The economy is in its ninth year of expansion, which is fairly notable, as that makes it his third longest in the modern era. By next spring, we will have tied for second, and curiously, despite the length of the recovery and expansion, we seem to be heading into acceleration. Normally as the expansion goes along, the m the ec...