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We do need is the fact that we have to close that skill gap. and i think thats going to have to be the focus in dealing with this new technology thats changing our society. >> david, you know, the liberals are saying, lets raise the minimum wage and health care to every worker. what happens, a company like amazon realizes its cheaper to employ a robot than a human. >> i havent seen a comment from amazon tying those two together. i have faith in the american worker, from service to the economy, a...

Tool to solve the russian review act. at this tool had only been used successfully once before. once in the 20 years this tool has been on the books. you know what? since january, 14 congressional review acts have been signed into law. 14 times, weve rolled back oppressive regulations. it is estimated that these actions alone will save family businesses $36 million. to revitalize main street, earlier this month the house passed the financial choice act. you have seen as much as anyone the hit th...

>> all of the above. this is a small but significant part, if you start providing and changing the system to demand driven education, educational institutions, whether they are two or four-year colleges or other experience-based education institutions are providing workforce skills with each passing year for every hundreds of thousands of folks that go through this, those are new job jobs. currently, all the policy you see this administration administering whether it be, or other is part of brin...

American companies want to hire. the issue is the mismatch between jobs and employees job skills. it also persists to some of the more traditional sectors of the economy, currently 360,000 job vacancies in manufacturing. 200,000 job vacancies in construction. and with the upcoming plans for infrastructure, those job vacancies in construction are only going to increase. apprenticeships teaches skills needed to bridge this skill gap. an apprenticeship combines a paid work component within educatio...

Recognize that americans want to work, we just need to marry up the desire to work and workforce skills. >> reporter: one of the newcomers of the administration here, i believe this is the first time we have heard from you on camera. can you give us more of a broad reading of how you see the labor market currently, you have mentioned the unemployment rate is 4.3%, i am wondering if you could give us your read on what some of the bright spots are with the job market right now and what some of the...

They need to get good paying, and demand jobs. wherever i go, and wisconsin last week, we had a real skill gap between the skills people need to get good jobs and the good jobs that are out there being offered. this is something that we really have to address and im very pleased that theyre moving part of this legislation. later today, armed services committee chairman, matt thornberry will reveal the third installment in his effort to streamline the pentagons bureaucracy and improve the way tha...

Do you agree with the assessment? >> yeah, it is nice to have less drama. but the point im trying to make, and i tried to make this the other day at my press conference, people in the country need to know that we are busy at work trying to solve their problems. so i realize that theres a lot in the media these days. that doesnt seize up congress. that doesnt stop us from doing our jobs, to work on peoples problems. one of the reasons i just read you the list of just what weve done this week on c...

-- how can it not exist? we took tech out of high school, at the same time we told an entire generation that their best hope for success was a four-year degree. the most expensive path becomes the best path for the most people. at the same time, all these other jobs which are linked to this very fundamental form of education are completely marginalized because we send a really powerful message. if you dont just take vocational technical training out of high schools and data be the end of it. tha...

Entire generation that their best hope for success was a four-year degree. the most expensive path becomes the best path for the most people. at the same time, all these other jobs which are linked to this very fundamental form of education are completely marginalized because we send a really powerful message. you dont just take vocational technical training out of high schools and data be the end of it. that sets all kinds ofoo dominos in place. none of them are pretty and they all fall down. >...

Nothing to do with unemployment, not really. the skill gap proves that opportunity alone is not enough to get people unemployed. really, neither is training. you can have all the opportunity and training in the world but if you do not have underlying appreciation for work, if youre not talking about jobs that people affirmatively aspire to, you will be pushing the boulderi up the hill. tilting the windmill or whatever self-defeating metaphor makespu the most sense to you. it is a suckers abet. y...