68,000 in all housing-related. So that would include your durable goods that you put into a house?

So that is telling us that companies are not putting on temps? Is that what you are saying to us?

Do you see any of that reflected in your employment data of either strength or less weakness in employment and export-oriented sectors?

Thanks for the data and the information.

You mentioned that the construction industry--when you say on month-to-month, do you see any trend lines on the export on a broader--on a longer basis on employment related to exports broader than a few months?

Ah, thank you. OK, so that that is a reflection of the bigger number of unemployment taking place, rather than that people are unemployed for a less period of time.

Today's news that the economy lost 80,000 payroll jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose 5.1 percent is disappointing to all of us.

I find this real interesting.

So we have got a real weakness in the automotive sector continuing there? Correct?

So if you took construction and manufacturing together, what percentage of the job loss--was it well over 100 percent?

Now Chairman Bernanke talks about slow performance late last year, you know, the signs of a recession this year.

We are trying to figure out what we should be doing from our end in order to stem the tide of all these negative statistics.