They were looking for a 9 rise. Imports fell 12. 7 . Estimates were for 8iron percent for a 10 fall. That is most likely due to falling Commodity Prices driving down the value of imports. That brings the march trade surplus to just over 3 billion. Given that 60 billion dollars surplus in february, economists were looking for about 60 billion. Economists say the march drop is due to that timing of the Chinese New Year. They say the International Market demand is weak. Export orders are falling and all the late and only the u. S. Market is doing well right now. This shows underlying weakness in the manufacturing sector. The overcapacity, there is a lot of hide labor cost, high financing cost. Customs officials said exporters are losing orders and all these higher costs are hurting trade. We of course see weakness in the eurozone and japan hurting trade. Pmi has been weak [no audio] rishaad clearly weve got a technical gremlin in the works. Lets get back to the markets. Heres zeb. Zeb the
Thank you. Thank you commissioner wynns and i want to recognize that were joined by supervisor campos and the school board commissioner. Thank you for being here. Commissioner mendoza. Thank you. First i really want to thank united way and dcyf and department of Workforce Development for all of the work around this. This is the third summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place for the young people to go where they can have the applications come in and on the back end have Jobs Available for them so this is everybody has been doing their own thing making their own connection and having their own relationships so this whole effort is tremendous just in terms of the relationships that have been built over the years. Having said that theres a lot that still needs to get done. I think part of what we have been talking about as a team is how do we ensure that those inter
Students so we have orientation for the Business Partners and the students. We have ongoing workshops. We have packets, everything you can think of and how to ask for more or less work so i think we have those students. Now the other students that i am talking about and were excited to expand out for the project labor internship they have the same services in the summer, but they dont have the follow through during the school year, so its episodic for the pla kids that come out of the different high schools but we have the same services so they have that orientation. They have those workshops. We make sure that they fill out time sheets and those employers are supported just as well. We spend a lot of time developing the work, the Work Base Learning rotation for the summer so muni and darlene they sit down and work out what the opportunities are doing when they visit two days a week and its based on curriculum and a plan. We dont wing it. If i can follow up for a minute when you say th
Them make the connections and build on the experience because we dont want it to be a one off. Thank you. Thank you commissioner wynns and i want to recognize that were joined by supervisor campos and the school board commissioner. Thank you for being here. Commissioner mendoza. Thank you. First i really want to thank united way and dcyf and department of Workforce Development for all of the work around this. This is the third summer now and fourth summer, wow, so this is the fourth summer and i think part of the challenge coming into this was not ever having a coordinated effort or a place for the young people to go where they can have the applications come in and on the back end have Jobs Available for them so this is everybody has been doing their own thing making their own connection and having their own relationships so this whole effort is tremendous just in terms of the relationships that have been built over the years. Having said that theres a lot that still needs to get done.
General positive feedback and then things to improve . Yeah so those were some of the things to improve. Right. Overall we definitely get a lot of feedback thanks for helping me get a job and starting my career. They like the youth resource fair as an opportunity to build skills and they find a job and a nonprofit and in 2012 we didnt have door ways and not easy on the ground point to get help and since then we have a place for them to go we get good feedback. I know this isnt always true but sometimes the employers might have more support mechanisms in place and train people for jobs and sometimes the private sector employers dont as much. What do we do to insure a higher level of consistency and getting experience from the program . Yeah thats a good question. I think it starts with the screening that the door ways do and make sure that the young people are ready for that experience. Not every person is ready for a private sector experience and another program that is more supportive