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One of the things that I did learn as NEC director is not to pay too much attention to one data point in any one month. If you look back across the last three months we’ve averaged 500,000 jobs. That compares to 60,000 jobs created per month in the prior administration during their last three months, so we're headed in the right direction, but it's a long path out of the difficult period of time that we’ve had because of the pandemic.