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With preexisting funds. this is another way that president obama is using his so-called pen and phone to circumvent conference in this midterm election year. so the first one is a $500 million grant, competitive grant program, that will seek to identify the best programs that link businesses and community colleges like this one. and then to expand those programs nationwide. the second one is aimed at expanding apprenticeships nationwide. that's $100 million program. there are currently about 375,000 apprenticeships nationwide. white house officials say about 87% of apprentices go on to earn fu...

Wealthy, but you can support a family. you can buy a home. make sure your kids are doing good. go to college. have something left over for retirement. have health care you can count on. maybe take a vacation once in a while. just the basics, and knowing that you're part of a community that is growing for everybody, not just some. >> that was president obama speaking at the community college of allegheny county in pennsylvania. announces new investments in federal job training programs. vice president joe biden hit the road with the president and spoke alongside him. wearing -- i don't think he...

It will be harder politically for them to oppose this increase in spending than many of the others that have been proposed. >> let's go to that point you just made about job training programs. that is a big part of the partisan debate on the hill about this. john boehner and many other conserve sieves saying it doesn't do enough to train people for job. it would be better to make them more equipped for the economy. you're saying you don't think that's the most cost effective outcome. >> it's not really the reason that they are not finding jobs. it's not that they are not trained for jobs. ther...

Poverty? one very important thing that you guys could do. >> job training skills. that's a big deal. we have a bill that we passed out of the house people stuck down and out in life can can get the skills they need to get a good career. >> tell us how that would work. >> well, it are about 49 different job training programs against whether they work or not. we passed a bill already in the house consolidating these programs, sending them back to the states so that people can go get a scholarship, a voucher, and get training at a community college, at a technical college, at an employer who imaw...

Wage. republican senator rob portman says good jobs are already out there. government-funded job training programs are falling short. >> the american people are way ahead of congress on this issue. we've just got to let congress know that. it's time for 1010, time to give america a raise. it's time to restore opportunity for all. >> let's make sure americans can get the skills they need to access the jobs that are out there. the federal government runs 47 different, often overlapping work force training programs, but they aren't closing the skills gap. in fact they have too much bureaucracy an...