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Make sure we can make sure job training programs better match up with the needs of businesses around america. elizabeth plank is the executive social editor and rich benjamin a senior fellow at the think tank, welcome to both of you. you sat with me during the president's speech there. let me start with you, this is part of an effort that's become somewhat customariry for presidents as of late. they hit the road and take their message to the people of america, that's what we're seeing president obama do as he shakes the hands of some of the factory workers in waukesha. what did you make of the...

>> my pleasure to be here. you know, when we look at the commerce department and the new job training programs, what role does the commerce department have in what the president is proposing? >> you know, i have a long history of being involved with training and skilled work force. for the first time we have made it a priority to make sure our wonderful american workers are getting the skills that they need. that means engaging with the business community to make sure the job training is industry-led. so that's what the president is going to talk about, how we partner between the department ...

Up and upgrading things because companies are constantly shifting their needs. so what we're going to do is review all of federal job training programs soup to nuts and then we're also going to be supporting local ones. i've asked vice president biden and top officials in federal government to reach out to governors and mayors and business leaders and labor leaders and democratic and republican members of congress, let's find what programs are working best and let's duplicate them and expand them. later this year i'm going to ask tom perez, my secretary of labor, to apply those lessons as we c...

Better job training programs but when it comes to one of the things he brought up in the state of the union, the minimum wage for new federal contract wort workers we heard from jay carney, when that goes into effect it will likely only impact a couple hundred thousand americans, more than 2 million americans who are federal contractors. so that gives a better sense to single handedly get things done. >> it's very interesting that the president decided to stop in waukesha as well. this best we can gather this is a republican strong hold. this is -- i'm going to shut up here and president obama...

Focus on taking a closer look at federal job training programs here at this ge natural gas engines place. they have programs in place that allow job shadowing and the white house says its focus is on what they describe as in demand jobs. described best by tom barrett who setd the problem is like ships passing in the night. you've got workers who are looking for jobs and employers who are looking for workers with the training that they need. the challenge obviously is to bring those two things together. notably absent is the waukesha mayor. he's not here because he says he thinks the governor o...