joe: joining us for more, valerie wilson, director of the program on race, ethnicity, and economy economic policy institute. thanks for joining us. picture, do you agree there is a lot to like in this report? valerie: i do. we have had two consecutive months of job growth that exceeded expectations. it was revised upwards to 938,000 at the three-month average pace where we are moving now and we should be well on our way to pre-covid rates of unemployment by the end of next year. caroline: well on our way, in spite of the delta variant, in spite of the labor frictions we have seen in the market. valerie: yeah, so that is a remaining question mark, how much of an effect the delta variant will have on the pace of job growth. the question -- the good news there is we are ahead of the pace of where we should be, so even if things slowed a bit in the next couple of months, as long as we do not have an extreme slowdown, we should still be pretty much on pace to get to pre-covid unemployment by the end of next year. romaine: when we look at some of the expanded benefits and expiration in states fo