danny blanchflower says they are not. ellen zentner says yes, they are.t goes back to the question with respect to savings. will people go out? how much will they spend? tom: jon, you will have the distinction of speaking with the secretary of labor, a feat on the ground mayor of boston, martin walsh. what is the distinction you see in this report that you are going to drive forward to the conversation with the secretary? jonathan: of course, it depends on the numbers, but the tension between republican governors and some of the politics coming out of the administration, the additional $300 in unemployment benefits, the additional amount of money offered to the unemployed in states across america, and pushed back from south carolina. they believe it disincentivizes work. those benefits don't end until september. the south carolina administration, the governor of south carolina would like that to end in june. montana is moving more quickly. i wonder how this powers up across america in the months to come. i still haven't heard the administration's position

the kids show up in the coming days, danny blanchflower. denny: my grandkids are coming today.s are starting to get back to normal and that is the story we are hearing on the economy. it is slow progress. we are seeing past recovery but never had to where we were before this awful pandemic hit. tom: i want to go back to your book. there is a mystery here to what wage dynamics will do as we bring on millions of service sector lower wage employees. are you worried about rising wages and benefits? danny: no. i've been worried about the lack of rise of wages and benefits over the last 15 years or so and the big puzzle in the data is we have seen wage growth so strong, it just makes no sense. we still have the unemployment rate go from 4% to 50%, wage growth go from 3% to 8%. the reason for that is the dropout of the low in of the wage distribution. it is pretty complicated. i was looking at the data for the u.k. code the bank of england are going to look at, and it is just as confusing. there is an election in scotland. jan employment rate in scotland is lower than it was in march