many of you know rob shaprio has a long history of leadership here in washington.helping advise bill clinton in 1992 and eventually becoming the undersecretary of commerce for economic affairs in the second clinton term. bob and i -- we have been brought together. it is a subject we are going to talk about today. it is back in early 2005 when ndn was reborn as a think tank from being more of a political organization. i started calling people and visiting people and having lunch with people and try to figure out what was happening in the american economy. it was data that i just couldn't explain. no one did a better job that explains me what he thought was happening. what we have to remember is what is happening with the american economy. we began a collaboration that has gone on now for almost eight years in a series of papers that we have been writing about. dozens of events, lots of television commentary. looking at the essential issue. what happened and how do we explain what happened to incomes and wages and how do we understand why job growth is slowing down i