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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...

Driven experience-based education can be improved and can be used in a wide variety of sectors to further advance the workforce. incorporating apprenticeships in two and four-year degree programs, both traditional learning and skills-based learning. this is particularly important for those students who learn better by doing. president trump can speak firsthand to the success of apprentice programs in the building trade. the building trade invests nearly a billion dollars a year into the impressm...

Coverage for all four years. giving employees access to 49 on-line degree programs from nursing to software engineering. no strings attached. shultz says its not a pr stunt. >> we have to do more for our people. companies are in business to not only make a profit but take care of our people and serve our community. and that is what this is about. >> reporter: starbucks expecting to send 25,000 employees to college over the next decade. a $250 million commitment. only a handful of employers offer...

And destroyed at least two structures and is now about 10% contained. this is interesting. thousands of baristas are set to get a free online education. starbucks will pay up to full tuition for any employee who works at least 20 hours a week and a accepted at arizona state university. asu offers 40 undergraduate majors and has 11,000 students in its online degree programs. starbucks and asu will announce their agreement today in new york. up next on "new day," even as bowe bergdahl continue...

In a surprise move, at least three medical schools are shaving off a full year of their degree programs to get more physicians into the workforce sooner. theres already a shortage of primary care doctors, but as obama care takes effect the majority of the 48 million people without health care coverage right now will suddenly be insured and need doctors. one study predicts a shortage of 45,000 primary care physicians in the next seven years. joining me now is assistant professor of annes thesolog...

Boomers. thats the reality of fiscal policy and nothing that has happened including the sequester fundamentally changes that. >> you talk about this next generation, almost as if america in some cases is eating its young, when you look at the high student loan debt, the fact that so many kids are underemployed, all of these majors at one time would have been a path to middle class life are not anymore. the kids are underemployed. theyre not even working in jobs. >> right. >> large share of gradu...

People will go to the cheapest possible way to do it. another thing going on. you realize that not only colleges, im talking about colleges sponsored by the states and universities, we also have a number. in fact there are so many private companies offering educational degrees that we have an etf that you can buy that encompasses all these schools. school competition, it will bring down the price and that is what is working. its working in the private sector like we were talking about the post o...

>> and im john berman. and the economy taking the back seat for a moment to foreign policy when it comes to the presidential campaign. >> well talk about mitt romneys trip overseas and president obamas brand-new ad. plus were getting an idea of what the opening ceremony of the 2012 olympics will actually look like. but first, exclusive new details about the apartment of james holmes, the suspected colorado shooter. a law enforcement official has described to cnn video taken from in...

>> its looking more and more as if the supreme court will cut the heart out of health care reform law. thats the part which would require americans to buy insurance if that mandate is found unconstitutional and we wont know it until june. its an open question whether the rest of the law could survive. the court wrapped up three days of historic arguments today. cnns congressional correspondent kate bolduan and our legal analyst jeffrey toobin, they were both inside during the oral argu...

College of agriculture. arizona is considering tuition increases in excess of 30%. georgia educators say funding proposed cuts next year through tuition increases would hike rates 77% a more likely scenario would involve a combination of smaller tuition increases and layoffs of professors and potentially the elimination of entire degree programs. >> whats at stake, of course, is the quality of public education going forward. we have to continue to make it accessible, affordable, and high quality...