and -- host: let me let heidi shierholz respond.st: i appreciated the question and the chance to clarify. it is 100% true that we are seeing strong wage growth. my point is price inflation is coming from -- is not coming from wage inflation. where the weak growth is coming from is we have an extraordinary demand for workers. and that is really good. we added 6.6 million workers over the last year. there's fast growth in the labor market filling in the gaps we had from the covid a recession and that is excellent news. but it means employers are trying to hire like crazy. at the same time, because of covid, we have fewer workers in our labor force. millions are out of the labor force because of things like remaining safety and health concerns, and ongoing covid related care responsibilities. so those things, when you put them together, we have a huge demand for workers because of what congress did. and because of covid we still have fewer workers able to work right now. all that means is employers are really having to compete for work

. >> coming up this morning on c-span come on the heritage foundation's rachel greszler and heidi shierholz, president of the economic policy institute, discuss the.s