mayor michael coleman of ofumbus ohio is the chair the conference of economy for the u.s.rence of mayors. thank you for joining me today. >> before we get started on the report, you just heard about charlotte,ng on in north carolina. is that the something columbus is considering? there are two schools of thought, that you need to get people off unemployment because encourage them to find work but others say that there is a morale eddie issue at play. >> where was the program? >> in charlotte. >> they are attempting to take unemployment benefits from people, and they say that is pushing the unemployment rate down, but at some point, you have people leaving the area and trying to find work in other places. >> no, we have no intention of taking people's unemployment benefits from them. >> what is the unemployment rate in columbus right now? >> we are at about 4.2%. we are a very different city than the rest of ohio. our unemployment rate has been much lower than the rest of the state. and strongverse economy and we have rebounded substantially from the recession areany years