It's Tuesday, and this is the Ramsey Call of the Day, part of the Ramsey Network.

Joining me today is Ramsey Personality, Ken Coleman.

So, Ken, the job numbers are, you were talking about it before we came on the air.

Yeah.

And this is a, I thought I knew something.

I'm learning I knew nothing. I couldn't. I mean,

I've got, in my mind, I've got states that are wide open, like our state of Tennessee's wide

open. And then you've got, you know, the communist state of California where everything's shut down

by a draconian governor, right? And so I figure the entire economy is just sitting on the

sidelines, sitting on their hands in some of these states, and the economy's booming in the other

states. But you're saying these numbers coming out, the federal numbers coming out across the

whole nation, blending these different states together, obviously, and these numbers are, the job

market is really good.

It's way better than you think, and here's the good news, Dave. These numbers say it's going to absolutely explode in the next few months in the next quarter. Here's where we are right now.

End of February, 6.7 million private sector jobs were posted. That's up from $6.1 million at the end of December.

So as we went into the new year, that's how many jobs are seeing a nice trend in private

sector jobs that are posted.

All right.

And here's the way of looking at that.

8% more job openings in February 2021 than there were in February 2020.

Now, some of you're going, okay, I'm trying to remember, when did COVID shutdown start?

Really in March, in the month of February, obviously towards the end of February, we were learning

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