It's a statewide battle. When businesses started to hire back, we see a corresponding increase in the labor force. It makes it hard to bring down the unemployment rate.

The labor force remained constant. There weren't a lot of changes.

That's not unusual for the labor force to drop like that in January.

We think there is a missing labor force.

The disintegration of organized labor as a major force in the legislative process often means that there is no counterbalance to their views. You have an 800-pound gorilla battling no one.

If you leave the labor force thinking you have plenty, and then realize that you don't, then you are stuck.