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Ways. part of it is putting the narrative out there that looks at the long historical flow. one could say people don't eat in the long term, they eat in the short term. but i think there is an educational component. secondly, we have to be mindful of these disenfranchised communities. apprenticeship programs, how can we employ them? bringing them along and thirdly, we have to look at where we have successes and celebrate them. 20 years ago the balkans were ripped apart. they looked a lot like syria does today. ten years ago, colombia was the a disaster zone. we could do this we can work our wa...

3.9% un. >unemployment.>> during the obas unemployment did not fall as quickly as we would expect, nor did the economy recover as much as we would expect after a big recession. usually, the bigger the recession, the faster the employment growth, the faster the gdp growth. there's a bounceback effect. it didn't happen because of all of the heavy regulation and frankly his identity politics, really put an ice on universities, businesses and so forth. now the thing to watch is not so much unemployment, it's retraining. we're starting to repurpose unskilled workers. they're getting apprenticeship ...

And replacing them with skilled people but rather training them, investing heavily, for example, this one guy that was put through 12-month training program and he went from making $3,000 a year to $90,000 a year, i have never seen a union program that can do that for someone. i will give you another example, donald trump is pushing apprenticeship programs very hard and i don't mean just welders, okay, i'm talking about bank managers where they take basically high school graduates, put them through a two-year training program, they get paid 15 bucks an hour, okay, they come out the other end 8...

District a lot of people, a lot of employers are begging for workers. in fact, they're willing to train them if you're willing to pass -- if you can pass the drug test, you don't even need to have the training, they'll pay for it. >> absolutely. businesses are now lowering their experience requirements and training people. and the labor department under ivanka trump's leadership -- she's been very instrumental in this -- is assembling apprenticeship programs across a broad range of industries. college graduates who got nothing studying women's studies, international affairs and i hate american...

Xfinity internet. which could save you hunreds of dollars a year. plus get $150 when you bring in your own phone. its a new kind of network designed to save you money. click, call or visit a store today. >> jon: some of america's business leaders commit to training 3.8 million workers over the next five years after president trump's latest executive orders. fedex, home dealer and wal-mart expanding apprenticeship programs for on the job training. >> president trump: to continue this economic miracle. what has happened in the last year and a half. we must invest in job training and vocational e...