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Political parties are laying out their respective visions for how to boost americas economic recovery. president obama again talking up his call to increase the minimum wage while republican senator rob portman says the jobs are out there, but government funded job training programs are falling short. >> the american people are way ahead of congress on this issue. weve just got to let congress know that. its time for 10-10. its time to give america a raise. and its time to restore opportunity fo...

Modest proposals in his state of the union address, are things that have also passed the house, and again, consolidating job training programs is one of those things, and its gotten stuck in the democratic-controlled senate, so i suspect that will be talked about today. >> yeah, amanda, what do you think of karens point, the house is doing little again to the boehner/obama meeting, which is a rarity. is that the frustration that undergirds the whole thing, the president feeling few votes in this...

And our territories. making sure that hard work pays off with wages that you can live on, savings that you can retire on, health insurance that you can count on. all of this is going to take some action. so far, in the past few weeks, i have had to lift the wagers of workers who work for federal contractors to make sure their employees are getting paid at least $10.10 an hour. we have ordered an across-the-board reform of our job training programs, och much it aligned with the work mary has done...

Dependence on foreign oil. in my state of the union address, i said this would be a year of action, and i meant it. so over the past three weeks, ive acted to require federal contractors to pay their employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour, because we believe in a higher minimum wage. ive ordered an across-the-board reform of job training programs, so we can train workers with the skills that employers actually need and match them to the good jobs that are out there right now needing to...

Still isnt a whole lot of money, but i think it is too much too fast. im not supportive of that. 73% of the folks in arkansas support raising the minimum wage as of august. what was your reaction to that statement? >> i look at people in north carolina and many of these people are working two jobs, three jobs. they are working harder and harder and unable to stay ahead. this is a puzzle thats got lots of different pieces. we need to increase the minimum wage, but weve also got to be sure that ou...

Make sure we can make sure job training programs better match up with the needs of businesses around america. elizabeth plank is the executive social editor and rich benjamin a senior fellow at the think tank, welcome to both of you. you sat with me during the presidents speech there. let me start with you, this is part of an effort thats become somewhat customariry for presidents as of late. they hit the road and take their message to the people of america, thats what were seeing president obam...

>> my pleasure to be here. you know, when we look at the commerce department and the new job training programs, what role does the commerce department have in what the president is proposing? >> you know, i have a long history of being involved with training and skilled work force. for the first time we have made it a priority to make sure our wonderful american workers are getting the skills that they need. that means engaging with the business community to make sure the job training is indus...

Up and upgrading things because companies are constantly shifting their needs. so what were going to do is review all of federal job training programs soup to nuts and then were also going to be supporting local ones. ive asked vice president biden and top officials in federal government to reach out to governors and mayors and business leaders and labor leaders and democratic and republican members of congress, lets find what programs are working best and lets duplicate them and expand them. la...

Better job training programs but when it comes to one of the things he brought up in the state of the union, the minimum wage for new federal contract wort workers we heard from jay carney, when that goes into effect it will likely only impact a couple hundred thousand americans, more than 2 million americans who are federal contractors. so that gives a better sense to single handedly get things done. >> its very interesting that the president decided to stop in waukesha as well. this best we ca...

Focus on taking a closer look at federal job training programs here at this ge natural gas engines place. they have programs in place that allow job shadowing and the white house says its focus is on what they describe as in demand jobs. described best by tom barrett who setd the problem is like ships passing in the night. youve got workers who are looking for jobs and employers who are looking for workers with the training that they need. the challenge obviously is to bring those two things tog...