Our country needs to produce 250,000 net new jobs every month just to keep even with population growth.

Just to keep up with population growth, on average our economy needs to be adding about 125,000 jobs per month.

Due to population growth, it is reasonable that construction would account for 8.8 percent of all jobs in Western states, somewhat higher than the national average of 5.4 percent.

Even when America's economy has been by all measures healthy and the unemployment rate low, some businesses suffer or fail and lay off workers. But nearly always, a simultaneous and even greater burst of new jobs has been created to offset the jobs lost - millions of new jobs every year.

The population is rising, the housing demand is steady and the dispersion of jobs increase traffic on the roads.

The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth.