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Around the country to get a vote on this. >> our veterans deserve our utmost respect for the sacrifice that they and their families have made on behalf of our freedoms in this great country. in my district i have a third of my constituents who are veterans. many of whom are unemployed, looking for quality housing, who need health care and education services. and the legislation that i brought forward will help address that workforce need. we have veterans with tremendous skill sets and we need t...

More life experience than they got age on this planet who are hard workers. they are going to take the initiative. the type of employees any company want. hiring preference is important and theres a lot of great organizes helping vets out. >> ive done so many interviews about big banks here in new york city jpmorgan chase is one of them but theres many. walmart has an initiative to hire 100,000 vets. one interesting stat i saw today is that 93% of the u.s. population has never served. does that ...

Theyre competent, have character and magnificent contributors to the team. carol, very often in businesses they are looking for very specific skill sets and what happens is they look at veterans and they say i cant translate what you did in uniform to what im going to ask you to do in this company and that becomes a conundr conundrum, a challenge and as you can see today the hiring of veterans are, excuse me, the unemployment of veterans exceeds the national norm and the average. >> it sure does...

In fact, youve got to be positively extraordinary. people with certain skill sets or knowledge, rocket scientists, entrepreneurs can get an alien of extraordinary ability visa. makes sense. we need brilliant people who excel in their fields. it can help push the country forward. the only problem is extraordinary is pretty subjective. meaning those visas have gone to professional bikini models, squash players, magicians, even playboy playmates. none of that helps carlos. since he was brought here...

People with certain skill sets or knowledge, entrepreneurs can get an alien of extraordinary ability visa. makes sense. we need brilliant people who excel in their fields to help push the country forward. the only problem is extraordinary is pretty subjective. meaning those visas have gone to professional bikini models, squash players, magicians, even playboy play mates. none of that helps carlos. since he was brought here illegally, he isnt eligible for any of these. seems the u.s. government d...

In fact, youve got to be positively extraordinary. people with certain skill sets or knowledge, rocket scientists, entrepreneurs can get an alien of extraordinary ability visa. makes sense. we need brilliant people who excel in their fields. the only problem is extraordinary is pretty subjective. meaning those visas have gone to professional bikini models, squash players, magicians, even playboy playmates. none of that helps carlos. since he was brought here illegally, he isnt eligible for any o...

Population is idle. six million people between the ages of 18 and 24 are not in school and have no job. >> what can americans do? from the dave ramsey organization, his daughter rachel. this is a jaw-dropping number. 15% of kids in that demographic dont have jobs, arent in school. is it because they cant find jobs or they dont want to work or go to school? >> im just a little bit older than them. i see a lot of less self-starters out there. you have to be motivated. i talk to parents specificall...

Of the military have shown up. since the earthquake in haiti in 2010, team rubicon has picked up thousands of volunteers, mostly veterans, who go to the disaster areas. they identify the areas that need the most help and go to work. they found the conditions are similar to a war zone they fought in in afghanistan and iraq. think about it, there is chaos and limited resources and the death and destruction. members of team rubicon take the traits they learn on the battlefield and use those to help...

That is inexcusable, eric. i wont make excuses for the president. but i will give him credit for doing more than michelle did. i believe that, you know, we talk about student loan forgiveness legislation. we talk about the obama care provision that allows the young people under the age of 2 to stay on their parents policies. those things do give some fiscal breathing room. i know for one i wish they had that provision when i came out of law school because i was struggling. however, the big thing...

Some inspiration. great ideas are normally killed not by outside source, but the ideas originator talking himself out of trying. go for it. now that we heard great tips on how to improve your business, lets get great ideas from small business owners like you. >> youre usually never going to get it right the first time so you really have to make sure you have the team and the resources and the skill sets in place to learn from your data after the first generation and make iterations accordingly. ...