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Out of debt, thats the example here, we have to reinvigorate an economy thats been stagnated. middle-class wages are growing and this is the next issue we have to deal with. we have close to full unemployment. we have a lot of people that are underqualified that we need to work with job training programs and we have to understand theres going to be a labor shortage in this country so when we talk about immigration reform, one of those things is how to bring high-skilled visas here to have people...

Analysts. errol, our friend van jones said the speech was like selling tweet-tasting candy with poison in it. a colorful metaphor. the question s was this the unity the president promised. >> unity is probably not the right word. there were interesting phrases in there. it didnt get a lot of attention. he talked about job training programs, vocational schools, workforce development. >> paid family leave. >> paid family leave. >> paul ryan didnt cheer. >> and support for people coming out of pris...

Chicago has become for the second time in a row beating out new york city and los angeles combined. that money could be going to job training programs. stemming violence and providing economic opportunity to chicago. heather: we talk about the library, and $100 million, and underground parking for the site, and the full -- they could

The labor department now reporting that a record 6.2 million jobs are open. thats the highest number of job openings ever. but across america, 7 million are unemployed, so what gives? blame the new digital world. you see trump promised to bring back factory jobs. >> everything is going to be based on bringing our jobs back, the good jobs, the real jobs. they have left and theyre coming back. >> in this new technological economy, those factories and production plants are gone. replaced by compute...

>> reporter: i dont think theres going to be a concert tonight for these groups to sit down. it appears the violent part of these confrontations has at least lulled. it is now 12:20 in charlottesville. it has been an hour and a half when these things kicked off. give us a sense, what have you done here in denver to help with the race relations, to prevent the violence we have seen, or what we saw in baltimore, ferguson, the denver police and various community groups in denver havent always had t...

Within the white house. its been extraordinary. next week is going to be american heroes week followed by american dreams. one more footnote to the me in america week, it is partly at odds with the presidents proposed budget which calls for cutting labor department spending. please listen to this, by two and a half billion dollars, thats 21%, within that budget, it includes a 40% cut to job training programs, job training programs necessities to help put americans back to work but of course, all...

>> ab-109 has brought about a different type of mentality and different type of inmate in to our facility. so people that are brand new, youve got to perseve. theyre teaching the pretrial inmates or first time comers the things that wouldnt be taught to them by the prison mentality. people who are brand new, felony of drunk driving, he could be celled up with a guy past 20 years, hes teaching him out to get around our system or fight against deputies and how to be a criminal as opposed to a inma...

Week criticized president trumps budget for cutting over $2 billion in federal job training programs. can the president be the jobs president that he campaigned on and slashed some of these job training programs? or is there another solution that you see in terms of meeting some of the budgetary constraints? >> it is important that a president who promised to create jobs is cutting job training programs by $2 billion. you cant create jobs without training people for those jobs. and, look, republ...

What is the ultimate goal with the suits? >> well, the goal is to hold the drug companies accountable. we are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and hundreds of millions more in civil penalties. here is what i would like to see ultimately. id like to see fully funded recovery programs for those who are suffering because of the epidemic. rehabilitation programs. job training programs for those who have been taken out of the workforce and the labor market because of what they suffe...

The suits? >> well, the goal is to hold the drug companies accountable. we are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages and hundreds of millions more in civil penalties. here is what i would like to see ultimately. id like to see fully funded recovery programs for those who are suffering because of the epidemic. rehabilitation programs. job training programs for those who have been taken out of the workforce and the labor market because of what they suffered through. programs to help p...