. >> george pendleton. twtwo point question as it relas to remedies for this. it has been shown through several studies that if employers were to hire for skill as opposed to credential, they would probably be a 30% increase, particularly among underrepresented minorities in the workforce. so my question to you is twofold. one, would you advocate possibly a discussion of amending the civil rights act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination in employment based on credentials? secondly, what point in time given your graphs do you think the trajectory of the graphs becomes a homeland security threat? >> nice, easy questions. so i'm a bit out of my depth in dealing with the civil rights act. when i think about discrimination against minorities, the first thing i think of through this study has to do with the felony background and criminal record and the overrepresentation of some minorities in this pool. i don't think that we actually know as much as we need to about why people who have a record of some sort in the past are not in the labor force as much as i think they