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Program. thats the charge from a republican who says they are wasting $18 billion a year on a job training thats for anything but a j-o-b. martha: im martha maccallum. senator tom coburn is fired up about this. he says a new study he commissioned shows that money is going down the drain at an alarming rate. he says the job training is going to travel, lavish meals and video games and making the government bigger. >> the vast majority of money spent for job training, it goes to employ people in j...

>> im chris wallace in washington. big story here today is an attack ad against president obama you apparently will never see. tonight on "special report", mitt romney is condemning a reporteded effort to hit the president over his association with controversial former pastor jeremiah wright. but a spokesman for the billionaire who was said to be behind the ad says it was never under serious consideration. allied leaders are heading to america for two big summit meetings. the president hosts g-8...

>> 90% of people who graduate from this program have a job three months later. 90%. >> the need to invest in job training has been a presidential mantra this campaign season and a political weapon aimed at republicans. >> whats the better way to make our economy stronger? give more tax breaks to every millionaire and billionaire in the country or make investments in education and research and health care and job training? >> presumed republican nominee mitt romney has called for overhauling the ...

For job training to the tune of more than $14 billion? now there are a bunch of new studies finding some problems with that job training effort. doug mckelway is live in washington with more context on this. doug? >> reporter: thats right, jenna. gao reports from as early as 1990s and again in 2000 and 2003, there was tremendous duplication and overlap and general ineffectiveness of federal job training programs. again last year the department of labor study found benefits of job training progra...

Voucher system that likely would not cover the doctors and the care that you need. that would have to come out of your pocket. job training programs like this one would be forced to cut back. thousands of americans would lose out on critical employment and training services. thats the truth. when you ask the republicans, well, what do you say about that? they say obama is making this up because we didnt specify which cuts we made. well, the reason they didnt specify is because they know folks wo...

the u.s. military asked the times not to publish the photos, but the papers editor defends the move saying, quote, after careful consideration, we decided that publishing a small but representative selection of the photos would fulfill our obligation to readers to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the american mission in afghanistan, including the allegation that the images reflect a breakdown in unit discipline that was endangering u.s. troops. chris lawrence, who is...

Cultural shift in the desire to work. theres no woman that ive been, that ive spoken with in my research that doesnt really appreciate the value and the dignity of work. and when welfare reform happened, women were excited about that, they thought they might get some good job training programs and be able to find jobs with a living wage. now that didnt happen. what we found is that women are getting pushed into low-wage jobs and that child care subsidies, those kinds of programs that are suppose...

To balance the budget the right way -- protecting the priorities of americas families. tell congress to pass a common sense balanced budget -- now. sign the petition at center-forward.org. president obama will travel to the swing state of florida tomorrow to make the case for the buffett rule. just four days after the latest numbers show job growth slowing in march. the buffett bill is expected to go nowhere in congress but does highlight a major theme of the presidents campaign, the growing g...

now theres a new attorney joining george zimmermans case. >> about time. >> thats kind of interesting. he did have a representative at first buchlt now the two of them will jointly represent george zimmerman. his father also really sat down to talk about his sons version of events the night that trayvon martin was shot and killed. here is what he said. >> he was walking back to his vehicle. trayvon came from his left side, asked him, did he have -- did he have a problem? george said no...

We get people out of the cycle of poverty and unfortunately, i think the plan that we have in place, the presidents agenda creates more of a dependent culture, creates people that are more stuck in poverty because it denies the idea of upper mobility so to me this is a critical difference about repairing the safety net and making it a system that gets people back on their feet. >> thats what he wants to do. right now its unsustainable. as much as you may want to pay for everybody and solve every...