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Political parties are laying out their respective visions for how to boost america's economic recovery. president obama again talking up his call to increase the minimum wage while republican senator rob portman says the jobs are out there, but 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 10-10. it's time to give america a raise. and 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 ou...

Modest proposals in his state of the union address, are things that have also passed the house, and again, consolidating job training programs is one of those things, and it's gotten stuck in the democratic-controlled senate, so i suspect that will be talked about today. >> yeah, amanda, what do you think of karen's point, the house is doing little again to the boehner/obama meeting, which is a rarity. is that the frustration that undergirds the whole thing, the president feeling few votes in this speaker's house? >> yeah, i think honestly that's speaker boehner's frustration, too, there are t...

And our territories. making sure that hard work pays off with wages that you can live on, savings that you can retire on, health insurance that you can count on. all of this is going to take some action. so far, in the past few weeks, i have had to lift the wagers of workers who work for federal contractors to make sure their employees are getting paid at least $10.10 an hour. we have ordered an across-the-board reform of our job training programs, och much it aligned with the work mary has done as the head of the nga. we have elected our treasury to create a new way for americans to start i h...

Dependence on foreign oil. in my state of the union address, i said this would be a year of action, and i meant it. so over the past three weeks, i've acted to require federal contractors to pay their employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour, because we believe in a higher minimum wage. i've ordered an across-the-board reform of job training programs, so we can train workers with the skills that employers actually need and match them to the good jobs that are out there right now needing to be filled. i directed the treasury secretary to create something we're calling myra, it's a new w...

Still isn't a whole lot of money, but i think it is too much too fast. i'm not supportive of that. 73% of the folks in arkansas support raising the minimum wage as of august. what was your reaction to that statement? >> i look at people in north carolina and many of these people are working two jobs, three jobs. they are working harder and harder and unable to stay ahead. this is a puzzle that's got lots of different pieces. we need to increase the minimum wage, but we've also got to be sure that our schools are working for our students, that our health care is affordable and available, and be...