on you can see here at the capital. you can see senator lieberman going after the united states postal service. they re the second largest employer of veterans in our country and it doesn t get any better across the country. he opposed giving veterans the ability to get preference in applying for state education jobs. it is a problem from that standpoint as well. and let me find out from you. we know that the obama administration looked for initiatives to i guess, in a sense, reward companies that are willing to hire vets. how has that been received, at least as far as what you re hearing from the vets coming back. i think everyone is in the sector. i would sit here and think, your network at nbc for promoting this issue because it is so important. there are a lot of people looking for ways to help employ veterans. our foundation has signed on to a system america wants you which is a not for profit.
we need to make sure that the next generation of manufacturing takes room not asia, not in europe but right here, in detroit and pittsburgh and cleveland and houston. we don t want to be a nation nobody should want us to be a nation known for buying and consuming things, we want to build things. make things, invent things, sell things, all around the world, which is why we need to stop giving tax breaks to businesses that ship jobs overseas, let s reward companies that are creating jobs right here in the united states of america. we ve got to make our schools the envy of the world. that starts with the men and women in front of the classroom. you know, an interesting statistic, a great teacher can increase the life time incomes of a classroom by over $250,000.
it s time to stop rewarding companies that ship jobs overseas. reward companies that are creating jobs right here in the united states of america. congress should send me these tax reforms. i ll sign them right away. [ applause ] another thing we re doing to support american jobs is making it easier for businesses like boeing to sell their products all over the world. two years ago i set a goal of doubling u.s. exports in five years. we re on track to meet that goal. we re ahead of schedule. last november when i was in indonesia, boeing announced a deal with the help of export-import bank to sell more than 200 planes to one of the fastest growing airlines in the world. boeing is one of largest exporters in america.
meanwhile, american workers have never been more productive. and companies like boeing are finding out that even when we can t make things faster or cheaper than china, we can make them better. our quality can be higher. and that s what america s about. that s how we re going to compete. during the state of the union i issued a challenge to america business leaders. i said, ask yourselves what you can do to bring and create jobs here in this country, and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed. and i m encouraged. we re actually seeing a number of companies, large and small, domestic, even foreign companies recognizing, you know what, we re going to we re going to open new facilities and create new jobs here in america. this is a good place to work. this is a good place to be. and our job as a nation is to make it easier for more of these companies to do the right thing. that starts with our tax code. right now companies get tax breaks for moving companie
in the next few weeks, we re also going to put forward new tax proposals that reward companies that choose to bring jobs home and invest in the america. and we re going to eliminate tax breaks for companies that are moving jobs overseas. president is about to leave apparently now for chicago. he ll be attending three campaign fund-raisers in his hometo hometown. meantime is, the job market will continue to improve this year accord to a new forecast by moody s analysts. many economists expect the rate to fall slowly. the moody s forecast predicts monthly job creation of 130,000. that s in line with the last year s pace. moody s forecasts the biggest job gains in three categories, professional, business services, education, and health care and leisure hospitality. texas is again projected to be the top in the nation in total job growth with more than 200,000. joining me now the host of msnbc s dylan rhadigan. he s also if you have not heard