Colleagues. Colleagues about the key issues of the day. Including outcomes for disconnected youth. Safer and smarter was. Investing in resilience. Cyber Security Workforce development. They all arrive at early learning. Innovative strategies. We will discuss how together, we can develop bipartisan approaches to improve the lives of all americans. Also want to acknowledge our International Best who have traveled from so far away to be here with us today. Please feel free to stand up as you are recognized. From japan we are honored to be joined. He serves a special advisor to the japanese Prime Minister abe. Complimentary vice minister of foreign affairs. Apanese ambassador to the u. S. From mexico, we are joined by governor dominguez. Where are you governor . He is the the chair which is mexicos equivalent of mga. From canada we are joined by a delegation of senators. Members of parliament from a canadian federal government and officials from ontario and quebec. [applause] were also excited to recognize the Council Generals from mexico and japan. Thank you so much for your focus on states and for being here with us today. Thank you also governor and first lady for being wonderful host and showing us a fantastic time here. We certainly looking forward to several social events to complement these business sessions. That includes bringing in that incredible childrens choir. [applause] herbetter, the floor herbert, the floor is yours. We appreciate your leadership. We are honored to have you here. Our special guest we have. Those that are here. The childrens choir, i would like to make mention. The group of young people from around the state. They have been on americas got talent. They just completed a tour in japan. Great ambassadors for america is the travel around seven that cells. And love for our country. Please give them one more round of applause. Let me just mention a couple of things here. One, im starting my 11th year as governor of the great state of utah. I can tell you that this organization has great promise and great hope for america. Is an opportunity for us to come together and discuss issues. Help develop an policy as we learn from each other. I have had the privilege of coming here and gaining some real good longlasting friendships for the past 10 years i have been governor of the state of utah. Hope they will take advantage of the opportunity and the old governors renew opportunity to come in and associate in the National Governors association. All of us are proud of our states. We out to the successes that we are having and have had. Also to do the same thing about utah. No matter how good we are, there is always room for improvement. To come here and learn from you. To see best practices. Taking place in this country. It has helped me become a better governor in the state of utah. Heard the song today, god bless america. I think the best hopes for our states going forward. They are really providing solutions for the nations problems. As laboratories for democracy. These little pilot programs that we all learn from. I want to congratulate all of hem. And again appreciate this organization for bringing them together. Let me just conclude by saying i hope you have enjoyed utah so far. The event last night. Nobody should say this is my first rodeo. I went last night. This is not my mirs rodeo anymore. Hopefully we have that checked off your box. Again, the barbecue that was served last night. Again, a great example of just local entrepreneurship and a small group of brothers that got ogether. Well try to rival texas. The southern barbecue. Now spreading intimately with the barbecue. I hope everybody got enough to eat and didnt go home hungry. We have an opportunity as we have seen. This little choir here this morning. We hope that you will join us with us tonight at the Conference Center and well have put ormon tabernacle choir at the ormance for us conference for us tonight. The concluding event will be at he university of utah. Our good friends, donny and marie osmond they will bring their las vegas show here and perform for us on friday night. We look forward to having reductive meetings with the National Governors association. Provide opportunities to help you anyway. Please do not hesitate to give me a phone call. We have Law Enforcement station around to make you feel comfortable. Please give our staff and those really making this happen in the back rooms an applause for their service here today. [applause] i yield back the balance of my time to governor bullock. Thanks so much. It really has been my profound honor to serve as chair this past year. Also to work with each of the governor. Both staff and workforce agencies. Oncentrate really on the our efforts on Critical Issues facing our nation. We will have time to see the good governor later on as he takes over the gavel. Really appreciate your partnership through every step of this as well. Im excited to get to kick off our summer meeting with the session dedicated to the theme. That is good jobs for all americans. Over the past year, i have engaged many of you. Both in this table it in the audience. And staff in how we as governors an prepare workforce and businesses for the changing world of work and support the promise of the economy in future opportunity. We all know that we face a profound economic and social transformation catalog by technological disruption. We know how we work and what we do will continue to evolve as it has in the years passed. In our conversation, we heard loud and clear that the challenge facing our economy is not lack of jobs, but lack of good jobs that can deprow and sustain the middle class. Many of the Fastest Growing sectors in our economy. Are often low wage with low growth. Today, we see the rent college graduate. Barely seen the Hourly Earnings since 2000. E cannot grow the middleclass with 60 have fallen of americans effectively have not seen a pay increase in 40 years when adjusted for todays turn. Win on the economy is not working for everyone. Certainly the causes of this reality are complex. Through this initiative we have spoken with experts, c. E. O. S, experts from many walks of life. We held three original workshops o help identify solutions. Thank you Governor Reynolds and Governor Wolf for being gracious hosts and participants. Through this exercise with her for more than 200 experts. Representatives for nearly 40 states. Uring the series of workshops. In montana i hosted a solution summit. We brought governors together to continue this conversation. I would like to show you a brief video now that will take you through some of the results of this initiative on this meeting with c. E. O. S and governors and other subject matter experts. I chose the good jobs for all american initiative. What we see and what we hear from employers and also what we hear from our constituents. Every single governor around the country is trying to make sure that the folks in their state are prepared only for the jobs of today and also opportunity for jobs tomorrow. During this initiative, we have had over 200 experts. Over 42 states and territories involved. Coming to the table to say what are we doing today but what can we be doing in the future. Due to changes in the automation f globalization. When the sands are shifting underneath their feet, do we have to recognize what those changes are and equip people with new skills and new opportunities so they can stay in their communities. One of the things i think is really cool is that we have been able to place the navigator within the education. There really help to work with the Different Community colleges. To create these experiences. Whether it is internship, job shadowing, whatever that looks like. Now we really are in a time of lifetime learning. Wherever people are, we have to be able to give them the skills and the opportunities. I think it takes you looking differently on what your Education Systems are. Where you can come back to the twoyear colleges. At any point. One of the things im here to get a handle on and learn about to bring back to the state of maryland is this idea of helping those in mid career job changes. Folks looking for career changes the new g to adopt technologies out there. Does not seem to be a lot of policies out there. Governor bullock is focused on that issue and im looking forward to learning those things. Nobody should have to leave their home or their church. Or their Community Just to make a decent living. What i like about the good jobs for all americans is their focus on initiatives and also second act adults. In iowa, we need to get more of our adults into middle skilled or high skilled jobs. What has been meaningful to me another these meetings is the talk and discussion about what other states are doing. As an attempt to incentivize individuals to come to our state in areas. All the great opportunities are available for life and work. It has been exciting. Ultimately the answers that we need, they are right there in front of us. You have good people all across this country doing good work. How we want to tie this initiative all together is bringing that good Work Together, for a guide, for every single governor in our country. So they can make sure every single individual in the state and communities have even a at that american dream. Now to join our conversation today and to provide private sector perspective, please join me in welcoming malcolm frank. He joined us in white fish for hat solution summit. To give a keynote. Really capture the essence. The challenges we face. With the skills theyre going to need. Technological change. Certainly pleased that he is joined us today. He oversees broad Digital Services portfolio. That includes digital strategy. Artificial intelligence and analytics. Digital engineering. Igital content platform. Incubates which digital adventures. The was executive Vice President and chief marketing officer. Evident across media. What to do when machines do verything. Both of which received multiple International Book awards. He has also authored numerous white papers focus on the future work. Mount industrystandard. Always sought after. A highly sought after speaker. Thank you so much for being there. Thank you for having me. 10 minutes. Im going to talk about two topics. The first is a. I. And jobs and then the second is your state and how do you become a magnet for the digital jobs of the future. We have a lot to cover. With go back to hundred plus years. The luditeswor right. Ludites were right. They could do the work of 40 of them. They were not very good economist. It became the platform of the First Industrial resolution. They embrace the new machine. They saw skyrocketing gdp. Incredible Public Wealth creation. Also created their job of the future. It happened a second time with the steam engine. About 100 years ago with the Assembly Line for the third industrial revolution. We believe Artificial Intelligence performs are now the new machine. Driving the industrial revolution. That was debateable few years ago. I dont think it is any longer. You look at the value creation. Eight of the top 10 companies on earth are based on this platforms. To have become trillion dollar farms. Like amazon and microsoft. This is a special time. It is only just beginning. Artificial intelligence is the great story of our time, but it is a story that generates lots of mixed emotions. Great ambivalence. On one hand, the art of the possible. We see this tactical wonder. All of us spend way too much time on our smart phones working on these platforms. Et there is this deep concern with this fear about jobs. The software is eating the world. The foundation of a good society. Are we going to be left. Society of the hyper rich and then the poor. Living off a universal basic income. This is a real concern a lot of folks have. We did a lot of research. Our latest book was about this. We actually think there is a song of hope here if you proactive. If you take the right steps. Hen it comes to software and jobs or only Artificial Intelligence and jobs, only one of three things will happen. A job can be eliminated. They can actually be enhanced. Think of using ways when you drive around town. Youre actually being enhanced by a machine. We will see this come to medicine. Well see it come to teaching. Well see it come to police work. Or they will be jobs in the future. We do not know now. Tried to explain the web designer to somebody in 1970. These are the three things that are going to occur. There were eliminating job. 90 of the activity is going to be about job enhancement for reating the job of the future. Our estimation about 12 will be lost over the next decade. This is quite significant. Millions of jobs that could go way. If you do nothing there is going to be a gravity. You will be victimized. I grew up in the cleveland area. It was rough. To watch all of those jobs go away. It was really brutal to observe. But were quite optimistic if youre pro active you can protect these jobs in the future and creating jobs going forward. Ow do you do that . I spent time on your state. How do you become a magnet. A lot of the tech employees. We have about 280,000 employees. We also worked very closely with leading platforms. Microsoft, amazon, oracle, s. A. P. Im going to give you a playbook. How we view you. When we decide where to invest. We have a 100 Million Foundation around tech jobs in the future. Were investing in local communities. How do we invest that money . With economic shifts, it will create winners and losers. This is not just for a bunch of bearded hipsters in San Francisco or new york. This is available to everybody. It is like brainpower it not natural resources. We can spend an hour on each of these. Im going to spend one minute introducing them. The firsis findings. Finance. We take a look at what is the role of government for the private sector. This was a famous case. You can argue the morality of it. But economically did that work. Today, we look at the role of state governments with fortune 500. Are they investing in your state. Or are they pulling back. We look at private equity. Venture capital. Ncubators. The new job creation and company formation. Interesting, the Smallest Group but often the highest indicator are angel investors. Is a people that got really wealthy in your state. Are they staying in reinvesting . Or are they leaving . That is something that we look very closely at this the attractiveness of these communities. The second is interesting. Bricks andwhat do we mean by this. Clicks. All buildings. Old buildings. Plates are needed the workers clicking away on their computers inside. This is a hot trend. This is a hot trend. Revitalizing urban areas. This is happening in lots of places. The leather district in boston. The meat packing district. Is happened across europe. Kings cross in london. That is what it looked like 25 years ago. In one generation, the regentrification of this neighborhood is simply remarkable. In fact, that is what looks like today. That was a photograph from a few weeks ago. These tech workers working in this community. Amazing private partnership to revitalize this space. Our office was just off to the left. Is being builtlex just behind with this photograph was taken. With this you see heb is creating a new headquarters for digital workers. Kroger is doing he same. Almart is building a new 300 acre campus specifically to attract the workers of the future. If you look for example in pittsburgh. They are doing the same. It is a road of common elements. These workers do not want to work in some soul destroying office park in cube land off a lover leaf intersection. They want to be in these urban areas. You can kill two birds with one stone. Rebuilding as well as attracting these workers and these companies. They want a diverse community. A social scene. Of course it has to be safe. We are seeing where mls teams are popular. It attracts these workers. Certainly is a pretty big correlation. The third that we look up. Go straight to its spreadsheet. Is your system producing enough digital workers. I think there has been a huge mismatch between the academy and the private sector. They used to be incredibly strong. Look at the miracle of the California University system. In the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s. Somehow this has become disconnected. We took a strong look. These are producing lots of Computer Sciences. Data scientist. Designers. Electrical engineers. This attracts business and the whole ecosystem. There is no if you look at the magic of silicon valley, it all started with the educational ecosystem out there as well. There is an incredibly Important Role for state governments in driving this connection of the curriculum of producing these workers of the future. A fourth one is lose the tie. Jamie and i are bad at this. Governor bullock got the memo. The culture of this community. Take a company we all know. Think of a typical goldman employee. You probably think master of the universe. Investment banker. Out of central casting or does it look more like this . What is interesting is goldman now, this is an old article saying that a quarter of their workforce writes code. It is more than 30 now. There are computer geeks. Is in a Software Company or an investment company. It is really both. Their new ceo. This is how he moonlights. Is actually a dj. He really has the sensibility that is needed for this digital workforce. The final point, make it open to everybody. Diversity. Y industry has problems. Tech is not diverse and. Over run by men. On top of that, there is lots of minority representation. Lots of asians. A lot of chinese and lots of indians. Which is fantastic but it is greatly underrepresented by the Africanamerican Community and the Latino Community and this needs to change. I now live in new york city. We have the issue with amazon headquarters. And when that blew up. A lot of folks assign blame. One said this is new yorks great exit. Others would say this is ocialist math. To get them 30 and ask for three back. They prefer the latter. Another is people are quick to blame amazon. There were clumsy in their efforts. They would blame the governmental leaders. They didnt sell this enough. I actually think the underlying problem is diversity. There was a sense this is about the rich getting richer. Not making it available to everybody. I think this is really core to everything that has to occur. I think people on this table can really lead the charge with that. Those are the five. That is the formula. The business friendliness. Revitalizing these areas. Creating enough workers of the future educational system. Having a culture that supports these workers. Then finally making it open to everyone in the community. To finish up, dont be a neo ludite. Embrace the new machine. Prosperity really does favor the proactive. Not to stick this wednesday morning. This is a sign of hope. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you, malcolm. Also joining me up here is the resident and c. E. O. Of the luminer foundation. Jamie is going to share his perspective on good jobs for allamerican initiatives. Globally recognized leader in philanthropy. Education, Public Policy since 2008. He served as president and ceo of the foundation which is an independent private foundation committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. Previously served as cofounder and president of the nonpartisan d. C. Based institute for Higher Education policy. As executive director of a bipartisan National Commission appointed by the u. S. President congressional leaders. They see author of the widely acclaimed book, America Needs talent. Named a top 10 business book of 2016. His work also includes Extensive Global experience. As an advisor and consultant in southern africa. The soviet union, europe and also parts of the world. Also a member of the formulations. Thanks for being here. Let me begin first by congratulating you on your initiative. Good jobs from america i think is a smart agenda. You are to be commended for the important work that the implement as a result of the ork that has been done here. I think malcolms presentation sort of underscores the importance of why that work matters. I took three big things out of what he had to say in his excellent remarks. Probably the biggest headline for me is work is changing in profound ways and we absolutely need to be prepared to understand how we actually develop and deploy the talent that we need as a country to address that rapidly changing nature of work. There is a rising demand for talent which is a huge mismatch between what we produce and how redeploy that talent going forward. One expression of that is the vast majority of jobs require some form of posthigh School Education credential. A degree or certificate. Today only 48 of americans have those credentials. We must understand workers changing. I would spend no time on trying to predict which jobs are going to be lost and which ones will be created. Mit did a study last year of all the studies that have been done. They found no correlation among all of them. From oxford to mckenzie. They did not make any sense. Do not spend any time on that. Think more about the task associated with the work and i was governors your states need to prepare people for those task because they will be constantly changing. Several of you have developed initiatives there. The second big headline for me is who we need to serve as a result of the changing nature of work is very important. Here, i think we need to come to grips with the fact that lots of americans have not had the opportunity to participate in this economy and get the good jobs because they are not prepared to do them. We have many challenges related to income and other factors. We need to address these equity challenges if we are actually going to meet the rising demand for talent in the United States. Actually deploy the talent that we need. The largest private foundation in the country focused on Post High School learning. We have invested in many initiatives across the country. Including some import once in the states that are trying to reduce the equity gaps in their state. And actually hold themselves accountable to those public commitments. I want to congratulate the governor from tennessee. Governor brown from oregon for the important work those states are doing in those efforts. We have seven states that have planning grants from the foundation because they are trying to prepare to do similar work. It is important to think about who were going to serve in this ystem going forward. The third thing, i think this is the exclamation point of what malcolm talked about. It really is ecosystem. It is not just colleges and universities. It is all the stuff happening in communities and workplaces. All of that is important. We need to be thinking about that ecosystem. Of post secondary learning and the credentials that people get the show that theyre actually qualified to do that work of the future that is going to be extraordinaryly important. Going forward, a College Degree may or may not have the value hat it does today. Employers are going to continue that you can do something. I think we need radical change in the educational system. It is great for states to first set goals for what they want to try to accomplish. In post secondary education. 42 stateses have done that. It is states have done that. It is an important first step in the process. Actually finding the ways to create a Tipping Point for your states and change dramatically that you have at the Post High School level. To power your economy, to strengthen the democracies that exist in your state is going to be very important. Thank you both. Malcolm and jamie. Well start out with a couple of questions and i will open up the governors. One of the things we heard time and time again to these workshops is really the importance of government and private sector philanthropy. All working together to address the challenges that we face. How do each of you think about partnering with the states to better prepare for future work . We actually have a mechanism that i would encourage you to take advantage of. It is called strategy labs. We actually bring together policy leaders to actually try to solve problems together. Across states. It is a platform for policy leaders to talk about the issues and resolutions and share information across them. It is a mechanism that every state to take advantage of in order to learn from what we learned in the work we have done what states. That is one important element of that work. I think more broadly, every state needs to see that state agency as talent agencies. I think historically we have seen agencies is having a transactional role. Which of course they do. You need a department of transportation, you need commerce, whatever the agency may be. All of them are talent agencies. They are doing work to improve and increase the talent in your state. To power your economy. This is happening in lots of interesting areas. In corrections, for example, we have seen a growing number of states investing in the correction departments to actually educate prisoners so they can have a Second Chance when they get out. This is not the core function to have department of corrections, but it is an important part of what they do. Everal states. There is a new Hire Initiative in iowa, for example that many of you are doing. Many of you have done similar things. The third thing that i think will be important, to actually see how you can better consolidate and get efficiency from the efforts that you already have underway in your states. One of the problems you will notice as both. These entities sort of exist. They do not actually collaborate. Creating structures where they can collaborate across agency is really important. In my book from a couple years ago, i talked about this idea of creating a department of talent. Actually consolidation of efforts. When you bring your Workforce Development together in an agency actually attract and deploy the talent that you need to make your stay successful. State successful. These are the kind of things that they need to be done in order to make your states more successful. We have closed the skills gap. You have helped us in very pragmatic was. E are absolutely thrilled. About the talent. Tell them what that is. We have invested there. We started to build that out. It is like dropping a pebble in the water and you can see the circles starting to build. As opposed to going in at 30,000 feet, a very practical and get things started. If you look at the bls, they are saying in a few years time, we will have 1. 5 million jobs short in the United States around the central jobs. These are great jobs. They are green. We have worked in partnership in new york, in the south bronx around programs to help people enter this economy. We have done it in the state of North Carolina with Goodwill Industries where we can help folks climb this latter in the digital economy. We think these practical initiatives that can get job started and change the trajectory is incredibly important. The program we are talking about is a shortterm eight week program, taking folks in. Given them some skills and giving them all jobs. One of the things when you were talking about cognizant, now i have to go find a Major League Soccer team to move to indiana. In addition to that, what would your advice be if you woke up one day. What is the most impactful strategy a governor can pursue as we look to prepare that workforce for the future . I think it is a few things. It is the onetwo punch is the educational system that is not going to produce results overnight. That is an incredibly clear signal to the business community. That is what all of these firms are looking for. You dont want to show up and have a flybynight relationship. This is a multidecade partnership. Is the educational system going to be there . People love working there. If we can find that urban revitalization, i think those the 2 the really the pillars. We have been doing just incredible work to increase post certainlyattainment throughout the foundations history. How do we make sure that attainment can translate into the jobs of the future that we are hearing about . I just returned from living in london for six months. I think you should pursue the soccer idea. I am working on it. I run this national foundation. Part of my job is to stay a step ahead. Im working on a new book. Preparing people for the future. Human work, the work only humans can do. This interesting fact about how much Human Knowledge has changed in the course of history. Between the earliest part of recorded history and 1900, Human Knowledge double every 100 years. By 1950, it was doubling every 25 years. Today, there is evidence that Human Knowledge is doubling recorded history and every day. How we stay ahead of that is incredibly important. The postsecondary learning ecosystem has got to be critical to that. We have to understand how Human Knowledge is changing and how we apply it to the way people learn. Here i think this goes back to your initiative. This idea of this Virtuous Cycle of learning and working is very important. We have all grown up with the system. We have this mental frame. First you learn, then you work. Those are the phases of life. Actually ratchets away the the reality today, you have to actually ratchets away the process of learning all the way through if youre going to be successful. If you going to be a participant in your community. We have to be thinking about building these postsecondary learning ecosystems within the context of the lives of people who are working. Todays College Student is not your typical 18yearold graduated from high school. Living in a dorm on a residential campus. That represents less than one out of five of all the colleges and universities. Today, the students are adults. Almost half work 20 hours a week, and a significant number of them work fulltime. One out of every four College Students today is actually a parent. We have to be thinking about building a postsecondary attainment model. Building an ecosystem that needs the learners today where they are and gives them those opportunities through their work and the existing ecosystem to help them be successful. A key to this, i just want to underscore this point. Something i said earlier, the credentials are really going to matter. The credentials really are the currency in the labor market. Employers want to know what you can do. There is no translation tool among all the different credentials that are out there. You get a license or certification or certificate or degree or anything else. Those systems dont talk to each other. We have to find ways to recognize that all learning counts. Then actually develop a system so these credentials can talk to each other. We have invested in something. Basically credential engine. It is the dna for these systems to talk to each other. It is actually a web based protocol. This protocol which is now being employers, universities, workforce agencies is actually something i hope states can invest in traction publish the data they have about the credentials using this protocol. So we can better understand what employers expect from the workers they are trying to hire. In order to do that we need to have these translation mechanisms across those credentials. If we can do that, we will have the dna for a very different credentials system going forward. This is something i hope we can work with you. Thank you, jamie and malcolm. I would like to invite other governors to join in the discussion. Share your comments or questions with malcolm, jamie, or me. Turn to hogan, i will you first. Thank you for joining us for the workshop. Thank you very much. I want to thank the panelists for joining us. I really want to give my thanks and appreciation to governor for his leadership and also for his initiative on good jobs for all americans. It has been a pleasure working alongside him. This is been a great year long campaign. Focused on good jobs and growing our economy. I had the pleasure of joining governor bullock and Governor Reynolds in iowa for a regional workshop. We were able to share some good practices. Then some of my team was able to join on a couple of the other. My commerce secretary anticipated in a couple of the events along with my senior staff. We have got leaders across the country that governor bullock altogether. Great discussions about workforce and some interesting discussions about rural workforce and the jobs of the future. Beenlly think it has terrific initiative. It was a valuable opportunity to get many different perspectives. To discuss some of the challenges that we face. I just want to thank Governor Reynolds for posting us in iowa. Thank you for the panel for joining us. Governor reynolds, thank you for hosting us in des moines. What we learned from you as it relates to rural areas, would you share some of your insights . Thank you so much for your initiative. There is not a governor across the state that is not dealing with workforce as we see the economy growing. Thek you for giving us opportunity to host you in iowa. We welcome do on a nice spring day. I think it was a high of zero. I think it was colder where you left home. A priority of mine, workforce opportunities. We highlighted a couple of initiatives we are working on. Our future Ready Iowa Initiative passed our legislature unanimously. We put the funding into it again this year. Our goal to have 70 percent of i owans have education or be in the workforce beyond high school by the year 2025. Maybe an individual like myself. Completed a couple of years of college and then had to put my daughters into school. Then wanted to go back. We are doing Computer Science in elementary for underserved and underrepresented schools across the state. Really infusing Computer Science into district starting in elementary. One of the initiatives we talked about that i really am proud of and i think has a lot of opportunity of scale is our registered apprenticeship programs working with the department of labor. This is a blueprint that is applicable to any industry which we started with welding. A student can sign up with a company as a freshman. It is incorporated into the curriculum. They can work at the company their junior year. They work their entire summer between junior and senior year. They go into the company when they graduate. What i love about it is students can make between 40,000 and 50,000 the last two years of high school. Go right into a job, have absolutely no debt. What we are seeing is the employers are giving them the opportunity, if they choose to continue to advance their career. This is a game changer. And it happens in rural iowa and the cities. It can be with nursing, with construction, with Computer Science, you name the industry. The blueprint is there. It is so encouraging to see the students engage and be so proud of what they are doing. Charles is one of the individuals that went through the first welding apprenticeship program. He bought an f150 black truck and all the kids wanted the opportunity to buy that f150 black truck as well. A lot of opportunities. I will mention another thing we are doing. We want to make sure wherever you live you have the opportunities for Work Based Learning. It is a game changer and allows kids to test run careers and find out where they have a passion. We Just Launched in july a Work Based Learning clearinghouse where we have over 107 employers that have put Work Based Learning opportunities on the website for teachers throughout the state. If they dont have an opportunity in their community they can go online and work with them and have the opportunity to participate. I want to say thank you. We focused on rural iowa, but the collaboration and we heard from other states as well of what they were doing. To really talk about what they are doing and what we are doing and look for opportunities, to scale. It was a great, great workshop and i was proud to be part of it. Thank you governor. I think we have a little bit of time for questions or comments from other governors. Governor herbert. Thank you. I appreciate the initiative. I appreciate our guests and comments. There is a category i would like to hear commented on, your thoughts. Most all of us in the states face in some form or fashion. That is what we call intergenerational poverty. Generation ofer not being able to find their niche in the workplace. What are your suggestions on how we can deal with intergenerational poverty and eliminate it . This is why i talked about the 100 Million Foundation. We are going after that problem, specifically. Governor reynolds talked about, a High School Program that is in extraordinary. Look at the new york city, it produces almost 50,000 High School Students per year. 50,000 workers, and and the match, the diagram is 3 . It is a master your program can solve things like that. Its incredibly well. If you look at the intergenerational issue, this is a nasty one. These folks tend to be forgotten. The educational system is not currently set for them. We collectively need to fill a void. This is where Community Colleges can start to play an entirely new role to help the workers. I think this is where the private sector can come in and say, these are the skills that we are looking for. I talked about the industrial revolutions. When you went from the second to the third, it was far to factory. Society was actually able to manage that reasonably well over time. But it had time and they were manageable jobs basically. But how do you make the shift from a compressed time flame two new skills and capabilities . This is where we need a partnership to really leverage the infrastructure and Work Together to build that curriculum. I think that is a very important issue. I agree with that. I also think that you have the power as governors to instruct your state agencies to make this a priority irrespective of the mission of the agency. Addressing these issues of intergenerational agencie equits important. Here, malcolm is right. The Public Private partnership is very important. The foundation does something unusual for private foundations, we make direct investments into startup companies. Complicated legally for private foundations to do this but we have done it with over a dozen companies. This is a big scene of what we are trying to do to invest in startups that can actually develop products to bring it to scale. One of them is based in boston called care academy. It is training Home Health Aides to get the Home Health Care aides into a credentialing and providing services to our oldest and most infirm populations. At the same time, we want opportunities for people providing that service who tend to be low income, firstgeneration minority populations. Into a pathway so that they can grow and learn and develop their skill levels so there can be a cycle of intergenerational success. That gets out of this intergenerational cycle of poverty that i think has stymied so many states. One quick one from governor mills and i think we have to wrap up. Related, older populations, we have one of the oldest populations of workforce people in the country in our state. We talk about midcareer workers achieving success. I would like to hear more about those people for instance, maine the thousands who have lost jobs in paper mills. They dont have the same mindset youre talking about when you talk about losing the tie and that kind of thing. They dont have the natural affinity for the digital environment. How do you breakthrough that and retrain people who are more than midcareer, older generational workers . This is where you can fill that void to show them what is possible. And to show the path. Right now, you know better than i the political fallout where there is this view that there is a party going on in the bay area, seattle, new york and boston and no one else was invited. That is occurring here and all over europe. This is a big part of it. For government to step in and show the pathway, provide the bridge. This is where we talk about the partnership. Go industry by industry, sector by sector to really provide that. We find those are some of the best workers quite often. There are issues with 20yearolds or twentysomethings that you have to work out but you find people in 50s and 60s, they are so eager to work. They provide leadership but we need to provide a bridge to practical programs. This is a really big problem because the truth is, you are not going to get that worker to go do coding. He or she is not going to do that you have to meet them where they are. You have to actually bring learning to the workplace. That person is not going to show up on a college campus. We have evidence of that. They simply resist the idea. Even if you present them with data that shows what the economic model is. Weve got to bring the learning to the worker and actually give them adjacent opportunities to grow their skills. Over time that will get them to highpaying jobs and be successful. I think it is critical. Thank you, malcolm and jamie. My chairs Initiative Comes to an end with this meeting but the conversations around good jobs for all americans, i read really think it has just begun. Im honored to work with you all as we move this to the next level. To that effect, im delighted to release what is the governors action guide to achieving good jobs for all americans. Each of you should have a copy of that guide as well as the executive summary in front of you. We captured many of those lessons that we learned from this initiative. And my hope is that you can also review some of the state examples included to get ideas for really results oriented actions you can take in your own states to connect everyone to greater opportunities. Will have a longterm impact. The guide follows the same three focus areas the initiative did. First section, workforce of the future. Aligning education and work. Were talking about how technological innovation results in new jobs and changes to existing jobs. We outlined the role for governors identifying what skills workers will need to succeed in response to those those changes. How to communicate those skills and how to develop multiple pathways workers can take. You will see examples such as the industry sector partnership. I assembled in montana that created the Ongoing Forum for businesses and public ownerships to come together to solve workforce issues. You will see how Arizona Governor ducey set a goal of what percentage of arizona residents he would like to see gain post secondary credentials by 2030. After consulting with Business Partners on business needs. If that goal is met, governor aty anticipates to 2. 3 billion in new revenue to the state. So many of you as governors are setting what those attend medical should look like and what a difference it can make. In the section on second acts, rescaling midcareer workers for success. We talked about the need for governors to focus on upskilling that current workforce. Rescaling and integrating workers who are left behind are left out. As you know, there is a different world now as we viewed these skills. In response to that challeng in the guide we have showed how governors can expand access to Continuous Learning opportunities for workers. To promote seamless job transitions. Provide for holistic support. How Governor Wolf issued an executive order to conduct a review of state professional and occupational licensure board processes and benchmarked them against other states to improve seamless job transitions. I know so many of us are working on that as well. We also look at how states can provide workers with access to childcare, paid family and medical leave, peer coaching to help them take advantage of Career Growth opportunities and juggle the family and work responsibilities. In the last section which is the third prong of the initiative, Rural Research and empowering the rural workforce. We look how rural economies have been affected by the great recession. And they are having a more challenging time rebounding it. It really hit throughout this initiative because rural is not just a place like montana. It really hit throughout thisrun every place across are various our various states. We look at ways that governors can work with Rural Communities and individuals to leverage those unique strengths and provide employers with a source of underutilized talent. To do so governors can build digital infrastructure, partners with anchor institutions, integrate rural economic Workforce Development, create networks that are supporting those communities and individuals in rural areas. In that report we showed how for example Governor Reynolds and i will launch the governors empowered rural iowa initiative. That resulted in significant investments in Rural Broadband but also the growth of private Sector Investment in rural areas. And in that section we looked at how governors can address multiple challenges. Such as transportation, childcare, Health Barriers in order to provide support to rural residents. There are other examples examples from your states presented in the guide. I encourage you to take a close look at it. And when i started this initiative a year ago, what i hoped at least was to start a conversation and lead to action beyond the initiative. I hope that the guide, the nga and all of us that worked on preparing it as a starting point for further conversation in your state with your workforce agencies and with your educators. Weve got to make sure it is just the beginning, not the end. Nga is going to continue the conversation of the future work. The future work now policy forum in october where governors will be invited to send policy teams to work on actions recommended in this guide. But lets all of us make this a starting off platform. I really do appreciate so many of you joining and sending your teams along in this initiative. Thank you for your support. Lets continue to make sure that we are Building Momentum as we strive to create good jobs for all americans. Thank you so much. Thank you to the speakers. We will take a quick break and come back at 10 30. [applause] [indistinct conversations] at that same event, cindy mccain, cochair of the Arizona Human Trafficking Council and wido t