women in s.t.e.m. careers. science, technology, engineering, math. the girl scouts adding 23 new badges related to s.t.e.m. scouts can earn the badges through activities like programming robots, designing model cars, writing code. the girl scouts says the move is to address the lack of exposure many girls have to s.t.e.m. only about 25% of workers in the s.t.e.m. fields are women. as we know, these girls have been fantastic entrepreneurs for years. they can go out and shake you down for a lot of money for those cookies. last year i went to an underwater robotic championship with girl scouts in northern new jersey. it was amazing some of the stuff that they were doing. they can get a badge for that. it s fantastic. your girl scout cookie of choice is all of them. all of them? showas and thin samoas and thin mints. i know, they re business leaders and fantastic to see. thanks for joining us this morning. i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. as the senate votes on heal
to the wednesday announcement. yes, ma am? is there sort of a region or group of people you re trying to focus in on with these apprenticeships even as the president is saying that the unemployment rate is doing well under his administration, there s still groups of people, be it region or by race, by jender, thjen gender when it you are correct. so the unemployment rate, i believe, is 4.3%. the broader rate that is the rate is at 8.4%. and as we have had discussions with ceos that are looking at these apprenticeship programs. one of the items of discussion is a way to work with communities that you typically don t see going to the stem fields ask other fields. and part of that discussion has been how do you target those
porter reporter: is there a n you are focusing on, especially since the unemployment rate there are still groups of people, be it by region, race, gender, that still have issues with employment. is your focus going to be in certain regions? you are correct that the unemployment rate i believe is 4.3%. the broader unemployment rate is now at 8.4%. we ve had discussions with ceos that are looking at these apprenticeship programs, one of the items of discussion is a way to work with communities that you simply don t see going into the stem fields and other fields. part of that discussion has been how do you target those groups? how do you reach out?
yes, ma am? is there a certain region or group of people you re trying to focus in on with these apprenticeships? even as the president is saying that the the president is sayin they re doing well with the administration, people still have issues when it comes to employment. is there a focus on certain groups, certain regions, certain genders? ma am, you are correct. the unemployment rate, i believe, is 4.3%. the broader unemployment rate, i believe, is 8.4%. as we ve had discussions with ceos that are looking at these apprenticeship programs, one of the items of discussion is a way to work with communities that you typically don t see going to the stem fields and other fields. and part of that discussion has been, how do you target those groups? how do you reach out?
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