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Secretaries to lean on these states and say, we're not going to send you billions of dollars for you to sit here and ignore disadvantaged businesses, they need to accestep up as well. you can't have politicians talking about crime rate, building more prison, talking about all of these negative things in our society but then turn around and say, well, folks can't get jobs. they have to say, look, if you don't this here, we'll sit here and cut the money off. do what atlanta mayor maynard jackson did when he said i understand the political power and i combine them with economic power. having a bl...

With constituent, stayed hidden in washington. they passed what they wanted. it is now law. they went back and said i don't care how mad you are, i what i wanted. >> greta: what about jobs? did they have the wind behind their backs they can move forward with more job programs or they missed the boat? >> i think they are going further to the left. they are going to ignore jobs. they are going to immigration. >> greta: they can't ignore jobs with unemployment rates around 10%. >> this is my understanding, they believe there's enough deficit spending, trillions pouring into the economy they will ...

People and the responsibility that ryan talks about, the ability to get the training that ryan talks about? where -- how does it all connect? >> well, again, it goes back to execution on the ground. government can do short-term, booter shot-type of things by creating federal job programs. but the bottom line is sustained job creation you need a healthy, robust, local and national economy. black enterprise convened the largest gathering of black entrepreneurs in country in may in the black enterprise entrepreneurs conference, and the goal there is pull together the private sector and partner wi...

You can't have politicians talk about high crime rate, talk about building more prisons, talk about all of these, you know, negative things in our society, but then turn around and say, well, folks can want get jobs. they have to say if you don't want to do this here, cut the money off, do what atlanta mayor jackson did when he said i understand the power of political power and i combine it with economic power. having a black president is one thing. but having african-americans with economic equality is a whole different issue. >> is there frustration in the african-american community? especia...

Beginningry of georgia. the programs have their critics who say that such programs should be focusing on businesses, creating jobs instead of the employees filling those jobs at jacobs ladder a nonprofit jobs program that teaches jobs skills in charlotte, north carolina. the executive director says there is a role for both. she says that just because the funding is temporary doesn't mean the jobs have to be. listen to her. our approach on that is that our clients get their foot in the door. they start to network. they build a reliable work history. that has a benefit for them to become reliabl...