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And the fastest in 40 years. and unemployment is coming down. so i would argue are biden economic plan is working. >> laura: working, well, is it working when people choose not to work? when your policies are increasingly encouraging americans to stay home? when the government keeps sending checks, we called them biden bucks to people to remain out of the workforce, okay, it turns out a lot of people just don't work. it's shocking. >> we've been looking for the last hard, hard for the last couple of weeks, cannot even get people to come into interviews when they do apply. >> it's very, very fr...

There is a world of republican reactionary politics and i myself have covered as a young reporter when they would be talking about it all the time. it would be this constant welfare shaming. sending checks, i'm only going to be lazy. and it's just not there anymore. i mean, i think it's been taken but other arsenal partly because the base wants the checks. >> we suffered through the pandemic, the inequality if you just look from obama to know the inequality suffered by people is far more painfully real and peoples lives. it's not going to be as easy to get out there and talking about welfare t...

>> they can have a 10% discount on what they are purchasing. regular customers have a good time to stock up or get to their limit. tourist will be just be lucky to be here on the tax holiday. >> i make a purchase once every couple months. i am not a big spender. so every little bit helps. >> reporter: so why is this happening? in the first fiscal year, legal recreational marijuana sales, the state took in more overall projected tax revenue and theed the bill of rights a portion of any taxes must be refunded and that new tax is pot. instead of sending checks, they opted to give a tax holiday on...

In your face that makes it so difficult out here this morning. >> and you know, in minnesota and parts of the midwest and great plains, they know cold weather. i mean, this is extreme cold weather. they know cold weather. that's why they canceled schools. they don't want to deal with people being outside. so, i think caution is the word of the day and so many governors are looking at that right now. >> yeah, please be smart out there. thank you, indra. >> thanks, indra. >> warm up, please. 37 minutes after the hour right now. unemployment benefits are back on the senate agenda today after la...

Now, i know it feels miserable for so many of us, but remember, the worst is still out towards minneapolis, out towards minnesota. we're talking about temperatures there still in that particularly dangerous situation, that rare issuance of awareness there. we're talking about temperatures 40 below to even 60 below. they're still talking about those dangerous temperatures out there. the relief, we all need to know, comes as early as tomorrow, about a good 10-degree warm-up every day. and of course, it takes time to get back to where we need to be when it is this cold. >> that is crazy, indra. s...