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Eventually people will like to get back to work. it's causing a tremendous problem amongst small businesses, restaurants, contractors. by the way, the wage scale in addition to jobs reports that we got last week, wages were up 4.4%. but inflation is up 5.5%. so you're more than 1% under water if you're a working american. >> martha: how can people afford not to work especially when the benefits get out? i don't get it. 10.5 million, are there -- have we made it easy enough to not go back to work? >> remember, it's not only that $300 supplemental. there's a lot of extra benefits concerning chil...

>> no, it's not. one of the interesting things has been the participation rate has come up almost entirely because women have come back in the labor force. it's mostly hispanic women. it was also prime-age women who were more educated, but i think it's really interesting that that's good they're coming back. the wage growth, this is something that chairman powell underscored in his conference was the wage growth is at the low end of the wage scale, that's great. but there's nothing in the middle and nothing to graduate up to. we haven't seen that trickle up. the fact that we already seen the h...

States is overwhelmingly employed they work very tough difficult jobs that many americans have no interest in performing they create job opportunities for other americans. further up the wage scale so the idea that it's an economic harm to us to have the illegal immigrants that we have the problem is that they're not able to come legally and congress should really address that by making illegal immigration much easier in my opinion but the idea that the illegal population has harmed this country is just inaccurate whether you look at the economics or whether you look at security and public saf...

Americans. further up the wage scale so the idea that it's an economic harm to us to have the illegal immigrants that we have the problem is that they're not able to come legally and congress should really address that by making legal immigration much easier in my opinion but the idea that the illegal population has harmed this country is just inaccurate whether you look at the economics or whether you look at security and public safety illegal immigrants mean united states are far less likely to end up behind bars for crimes than their native born u.s. born counterparts so the idea that illeg...

Get better quality people and interesting, as well. this phenomenon more on the low end of the wage scale than the higher end where it was highly concentrated earlier in the recovery. we have more broad based gains. that's the good news for the domestic economy. mixed news on this is the wage data, the employment data is back ward looking. things like the ism index and china. we hope that we come up with something and more forward looking and we still have some uncertainty out there. today we have seen some things come together to lift the veil of uncertainty that let the markets run. >> i jus...