bush, ed lazear.ining me on jobs friday 225,000 jobs month over month, wages up 0.2%, workweek, 33.3, 6 1/2-year high on labor force participation, and epop popped to a 12-year high. it's all yours, ed divine what it means for our viewers. >> let me start with the employment to population ratio number because that's the one that reveals pretty much everything we always talk about what's happening to labor force participation, workers coming back in, but the easiest way to see it is look at the number of people working compared to the population that number is at 61.2 to be honest, i'm surprised. the number that we thought would be the peak, when i say we thought, most of the people in labor economics profession, saying because of demographics, we wouldn't get much higher than 61%. we're at 61.2% that's a great number. it tells us two things, one that the older workforce, people 65 and over, are continuing to work at high rates and that's unprecedented. the second thing it says is that the people betwe