Industry, with their bureau of labor statistics, and others, than ever before to understand with precision the needs of employers in granular detail. And then making sure that we design programs to meet those precise needs so that people can punch their ticket to the middle class, and employers can grow their businesses. When people ask him hey, tom, what do do for a living, this is what i told him. The department of labor is match. Com. What we do is help make a connection, just the right fit. Between ready to work americans, who want to punch their ticket to the middle class, and jobs and employers who need and want to grow their business. The secret sauce of this match. Com is very frequently community colleges, who provide that critical training that enable people to move up that ladder. Let me give you an example of this transformation at work. A couple of weeks ago, i met a guy named steve capshaw, who owns an advanced Manufacturing Business in western mass. They supply critical
And by contributions to your pbs station, by viewers like you. Thank you. The premise of a hilariously funny and ultimately alarming book about how those in power in our Nations Capital really operate can be summed up, i guess, in this phrase. Shington has not served the country well, but it has done that for itself. This town two parties and a funeral plus, plenty of Valet Parking , written by the chief National Correspondent for the magazine,imes joining us from washington. Thanks, tavis. I am in a protected room. I think this is the only safe place i can be without being run out of town. I am glad to be here. Tavis you famously considered naming this book suck up city. Why the change . Thoughtcaught it it was a little the grass. I have got young kids. It is a good title. You sort of know where you stand with it. It gets to the culture of this town, but people come here and get sucked up in all of the excitement and the vanity and the money and all of the stuff that washington really
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This week on Moyers Company if you can sell yourself as someone who knows how washington works, someone who has these relationships, someone who can get on the phone and get the president of the United States to pardon, you know, your fugitive client, thats a very, very marketable commodity. I mean, if you see if you are seen as someone who knows how this town works, someone who is a usual suspect in this town, you can dine out for years. Thats why no one leaves. Announcer funding is provided by Carnegie Corporation of new york, celebrating 100 years of philanthropy, and committed to doing real and permanent good in the world. The kohlberg foundation. Independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. The clements foundation. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations Whose Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. T