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Legalize people here illegally? >> right now the city of phoenix is the fastest growing city in the entire country. we added more people in 2016 than any other city. we arere constrained for our workforce right now. we just had some folks from the homebuilding industry come into the city of phoenix and say we could do so much more if we had a larger construction workforce. we could be creating jobs, we coulde be building new affordabe homes for people to live in, but we don't have the workforce weth need. they said the point that they really feel like it's changed was i not having enough throu...

>> reporter: but that's not the only thing at play. billions of dollars of government spending pumped into the economy meant to stimulate jobs, investments in infrastructure like roads, left women for the most part behind. only 5% of women work in transportation, and they make up only 13% of the construction workforce. add to that massive cuts to public sector jobs like teaching. women make up just over half of the public workforce, but eight out of every ten public sector jobs lost belonged to a woman. a lot of people wonder why don't women just retrain for other jobs. dawn said she tried but...

Illegally? >> right now the city of phoenix is the fastest growing city in the entire country. we have added more people in 2016 than any other city and we are constrained by our workforce right now. we just had some folks from the home building industry come into the city of phoenix and say we could do so much more if we had a larger construction workforce. we'll could be creating jobs. we could be building new affordable homes for people to live in. but we don't have the workforce we need. and they said that the point that they really feel like it's changed was not having enough people throu...

On card check provision. >> he has signed a federal executive order. >> eric: i will let you get to it? >> unicon destruction workers privilege pass. >> eric: here is the issue, we have state, local, municipalities a pension bomb ready to explode on them, some say up to $3 trillion if they don't renegotiate union mentions going forward, those contracts they there are going to be bankruptcies across the country. >> our local, municipal governments is not about the fact that there are pension issues, it's the fact that local governments governments have got to find way to share services and cons...