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The i hope you can interpret whether or not that means you better do this and how to phrase it, but if he had said at the end of the day, your job is to do your job, i dont think we would be having this discussion today. i have never seen another presidency do that. in clinton white house when april and i were covering that white house, they walled off the lewinsky investigation from the policy side. >> david, you wanted to get in. >> i would say, your latter point, second point, im in favor, i ...

The president and ivanka trump heading to wisconsin today to promote apprenticeship programs. the white house says such programs can help close the skills gap. anxiety over factory jobs is high in whaakasha, wisconsin. general electric is moving to canada and many people are losing their jobs. many of the workers voted for president trump, hoping he would save their jobs. all right, those wisconsin employees from ge join a growing list of unemployed factory workers in the state. more than 125,00...

Again that sort of the point. -- not exactly harvard, but that sort of the point. sometimes what they need is an apprenticeship. that leads to jobs. take a look at the numbers. numbers of jobs that go wanting in the u.s., skilled construction jobs skilled jobs in manufacturing. those are where they jobs are and you get them by going through an apprenticeship program. if you look at the starting salaries for folks that come through apprenticeship programs compared to four-year college educations,...

College or when students are looking at apprenticeship programs in the building trades or four-year institutions, when they leave they have the skills necessary to enter the workforc workforce. >> reporter: and the presidents budget, congress was talking about some new welfare reform. could this sort of integrate into that at all? >> certainly the dash one of the important aspects of this is the portability of credentials. when someone earns a skill, when someone learns a skill it is important t...

To the wednesday announcement. yes, maam? >> is there sort of a region or group of people youre trying to focus in on with these apprenticeships even as the president is saying that the unemployment rate is doing well under his administration, theres still groups of people, be it region or by race, by jender, thjen gender when it >> you are correct. so the unemployment rate, i believe, is 4.3%. the broader rate that is the rate is at 8.4%. and as we have had discussions with ceos that are lookin...

Porter >> reporter: is there a n you are focusing on, especially since the unemployment rate -- there are still groups of people, be it by region, race, gender, that still have issues with employment. is your focus going to be in certain regions? >> you are correct that the unemployment rate i believe is 4.3%. the broader unemployment rate is now at 8.4%. weve had discussions with ceos that are looking at these apprenticeship programs, one of the items of discussion is a way to work with communi...

Succeed. demand driven is not new. its used to some extent in the health care sector. it can be improved and be used in a wide variety of sectors to further expand the work force. incorporating apprentice ships in two and four year degree programs would off students traditional learns and skills based learning. this is particularly important for those students who learn better by doing. president trump has seen firsthand the success of apprenticeship programs in the building trades where hes ver...

The office of american ip innovation as this goes forward. questions? >> so how exactly do you plan to expand these apprenticeships? what is the government going to do? i guess its our understanding that its not necessarily youre not going to put more money towards these programs so how are these going to expand? >> if you look in the building trades, theres almost $1 billion thats spent every year. thats all private sector money. the building trades have put together labor management organizati...

Apprenticeship programs have an average starting salary of about $60,000 a year. 9 out of 10 are employed upon completion of the program. both the starting salary and the employment rates are higher than that of traditional college graduates. apprenticeships are also going to increase the labor productivity. apprentices hit the ground running when they start a job, they are more able and more productive and tend to be more loyal to the employer. despite these benefits, apprenticeships take up on...

>> so how exactly do you plan to expand these apprenticeships? what is the government going to do? as i understand it, its not -- youre not going to put more money towards these programs. so how are they going to expand this >> if you look in the building trades, theres almost $1 billion thats spent every year. and thats all private sector money. the building trades have put together labor management organizations that jointly invest in these apprenticeship programs because they know both on the...