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To train today's workforce, we've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand apprenticeships and i'm going to call on american companies all across the country, particularly manufacturers to set up more apprenticeship programs. we've got to make sure that once folks are through training and get a job, that the hard work pays off for every single american. >> i talked about this in my state of the union. you know, income wages have not gone up as fast as corporate profits and stock market have gone up. and that's a problem for the economy as a whole. if all of the gains are j...

Into apprenticeship programs and learns how to do very sophisticated manufacturing and they dominate large parts of sophisticated manufacturing. it's really different than our models. and my question, let's take unemployment compensation. i would be eager to support extension if we attach some kind of learning and training program so that people were not just being sustained but they were taking the time when they didn't have a job to actually substantially increase their potential job capability. could you support that kind of linkage? >> once they actually come out of apprenticeship programs...

And high levels of long-term unemployment didn't show up on the dol numbers because the way you show up is by applying for unemployment insurance. louisiana went right to work in '76. they had a 33% union rate in construction then. by the time 29 years later after hurricane katrina, they were down to 3%. and a group of unemployed people decided to build power to bargain with the state for a path way back into that iconic american construction job that was a path and a career ladder to the middle class. so what they're strategy was, not to simply bargain with contractors, but to actually bargai...

where are those jobs? let me show you how it breaks down. of the 243,000 jobs that were created, 257,000 jobs were created in the private sector. that's where everybody wants them created. you subtract the jobs that were lost by the government, 14,000, and you end up with that number, 243,000. let's talk about this with diane swonk, a chief economist, and with will cain and my good friend richard quest. what a treat to have all three of you with me in the studio. diane, these numbers are very strong. there's a disconnect between what some of our economic numbers and forks say and wha...

it is the number one hurdle in this economic recovery and everyone knows it. this country has got to get people back to work. welcome to "your money." i'm ali velshi. the latest jobs report is excellent, period. here's the breakdown. in the month of january, we created 243,000 jobs. take a look at this. from january of last year all the way, we had great job creation for the first few months of last year. then it cratered in the summer. still not a lot of jobs but it cratered and we've been building back since then. now 243,000 jobs in january. where are those jobs? let me show you h...