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President Obama Promotes Job Training to Spur Hiring

   VOA News  June 11, 2011
   President Barack Obama visits the Northern Virginia Community College
   Alexandria, Virginia Campus's Automotive Services classroom, June 8,
   2011, to highlight the need to prepare the workforce to compete for
   manufacturing jobs across the country

Photo: AP

   US President Barack Obama visits the Northern Virginia Community
   College Alexandria, Virginia Campus's Automotive Services classroom,
   June 8, 2011, to highlight the need to prepare the workforce to compete
   for manufacturing jobs across the country

   U.S. President Barack Obama says a new job training initiative will
   help thousands of people gain the necessary qualifications for
   manufacturing jobs.
   During his weekly address Saturday, Obama says the government is
   partnering with colleges and the private sector so 500,000 community
   college students can acquire approved credentials for manufacturing.
   The president also says the government is investing in solar and wind
   power and biofuels to lower the country's dependency of foreign oil and
   generate new jobs.
   Obama travels to the eastern state of North Carolina Monday to meet
   with his JobsCouncil on spurring job growth, especially among
   middle-class citizens hit hard by the job downturn.

   ^Watch President Obama's weekly address:

   IFRAME: [1]http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ixe6ldw7aHA

   In the Republican weekly address, Congressman Adam Kinzinger of the
   north-central state of Illinois says the president's policies have
   stifled job growth.
   Representative Kinzinger says his party is committed to reeling in
   government spending and reducing the country's debt to spur job growth.

   ^Watch Republican weekly address:

References

   1. http://www.youtube.com/embed/Ixe6ldw7aHA

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