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Threshold but also beginning to export this fuel to china and to places all over the world so it's going to continue to grow and continue to support jobs here at home. and it's going to continue to reduce our reliance on foreign oil. i would rather have our farmers get the benefit and our workers get the benefit rather than folks in the middle east. >> i want to ask you about your poverty initiatives because as agriculture secretary, you have been, as long as i have known you, really concerned about rural poverty and how the high percentage of poverty that resides in rural areas. >> one out of...

>> reporter: good morning, carol. jpmorgan, the wall street giant announcing they're investing $100 million in detroit to help with the bankrupt city's recovery. about 40% will be investment, meaning they expect so make some money back. 60% is philanthropic, basically in the forms of grants. $50 million, half going to community developers trying to turn around struggling neighborhoods in detroit. one of the biggest problems in detroit is all those abandoned homes. $25 million will go toward tackling neighborhood blight. $25 million toward worker training, small business development and a new r...

Switzerland, sweden, there's a whole group of them. doesn't it raise the question, to your point, which is instead of fighting politically over the minimum wage we ought to be maximizing apprenticeships, worker training, opportunities to invest to actually get people above the minimum wage by having a buoyant economy not slowing it down. >> as i said, i support increasing the minimum wage. that's not my long-term economic plan. that's to make sure that everybody lives up to their god-given potential. that's why we focus so much attention. you talk about european countries, one of the things we...

We just passed several months ago a skills act which says, yes, we need to enhance, we need to make our worker training programs efficient and we need results. all he has to do is pick up the phone and call his democratic colleagues in the united states senate and let him pick up that bill. it's something he talked about. he's off there talking about college tuition costs. the house has acted on student loan issue. in fact, we did something that was very close to what he actually proposed, and yet he's gone traveling, the senate is absent, and yet now student loan rates are skyrocketing. >> th...

We just passed several months ago a skills act which says, yes, we need to enhance, we need to make our worker training programs efficient and we need results. all he has to do is pick up the phone and call his democratic colleagues in the united states senate and let him pick up that bill. it's something he talked about. he's off there talking about college tuition costs. the house has acted on student loan issue. in fact, we did something that was very close to what he actually proposed, and yet he's gone traveling, the senate is absent, and yet now student loan rates are skyrocketing. >> th...