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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 w...

Trouble finding people with the skills. what can the trump administration do about that. >> the trump administration is going to announce on wednesday a big build out of apprenticeship programs. something the obama people were very big on as well. i'm going to be very interested to see if chuck schumer poo poos that as well. this should be a motherhood issue. the real question here is are the democrats going to get in line on common sense reforms and programs that will help make the environment better for hiring and for workers to get jobs? clayton: so you do point to president trump being cre...

Put that into the budget, it became a prize to some people. some people called it pork, but it has a purpose, especially now with the coal industry on its last leg. >> my sense was go down there and see what the program is doing. they're paying people for getting train and leading to jobs, and these are folks who want the new industries there. and that's what the funding is going for. it's a success. we don't have to be ineasing it. i often say for the president who made his whole reputation on theapprentice, you'd think he'd want to fund apprenticeship programs. this is what he campaigned on....

Today's economy? >> certainly to some extent. it's hard to make tough choices but it's also been hard to be subtle in the sense that there's a lot of people who are left out of the recovery. there's a lot of reduction in mobility. people are not able to move up the ladder the way they could some decades ago. inequality is increasing. i think there's a lot of things we could do about that, ranging from pre-k interventions to apprenticeship programs to programs to help disadvantaged youth, to infrastructure, the whole variety of things we could do. but they're complicated. they require a lot of ...

In today's political context. >> certainly to some extent. it's hard to make tough choices but it's also been hard to be subtle in the sense that there's a lot of people who are left out of the recovery. there's a lot of reduction in mobility. people are not able to move up the ladder the way they could some decades ago. inequality is increasing. i think there's a lot of things we could do about that, ranging from pre-k interventions to apprenticeship programs to programs to help disadvantaged youth, to infrastructure, the whole variety of things we could do. but they're complicated. they requ...