joining us now is dana peterson, chief economist at the conference board. t's talk first about the labor market. do you expect a big change at the end of september, after the on appointment benefits run out? dana: we are expecting a few big changes in september. certainly, many children will go back to school in person. also, the extended federal unemployment benefits will go away. we would not be surprised to see an uptick in the number of hirings in september as many women are able to go back to the labor market, as many low income persons are able, willing to sign up for work, as on appointment benefits are expired. last week's employment data was quite constructive. we saw 850 million ads, consistent with the million jobs you need to see every month to pare down that 6.8 million persons to missing from payrolls. also as governments continue to move through restrictions, vaccines are rolled out, people feel less concerned about contracting the virus, that that will also help to influence positively the labor market going forward. matt: as kids can go back

. ♪ ritika: coming up, dana peterson, conference board chief economist. that is at 1:00 p.m.6:00 p.m. in london. this is bloomberg. ♪ let's check in on the bloomberg first word news. i'm ritika gupta. president biden plans to make some comments this afternoon about the pandemic after falling short of his goal of 70% of adults getting at least one shot by the fourth of july. that number stands at about 67% according to the latest data. the president remarks are set for 2:45 p.m. wall street time from the white house. president biden and russia's vladimir putin face on early post summit test in syria. an agreement over 80 corridors is set to expire -- over aid corridors is set to expire. flowing aid into syria will require the members to reach an agreement. in florida, rescuers search through the rubble after the last of that collapsed condo building was demolished. four more victims were discovered. another 117 are still missing. in brazil, president jair bolsonaro has fallen to the lowest level since he took office. one of bolsonaro's office says he turned a blind eye to an a

okay dana, dirt and peterson saw this coming when he refused to y pronouns that he was told he had too keep you from saying certain things, but they can't compel you to use specific words. that is like a whole new world. >> it's like -- remember that brandeis university that lifted all those words that they said were oppressive. but this is like the reverse, this is basically pressing him for his beliefs. when you look at the balance of harm and all of those, you have to take into account that he didn't say this at the school. he said this to adults at a school board meeting. and certainly going to far, but i do think it's only a matter of time before we were all caught up in this. >> greg: absolutely. >> greg: absolutely. >> like when jesse starts getting us to call him "they." it will be hard for us, because we are older. >> greg: i'm sticking to calling jesse "it." >> jim was my favorite subject in school. i have a great affinity for gym teachers. i like the fact that they can just wear shorts and a t-shirt to work. and get summers off. my gym teacher at school was named mr. quacke