companies to bring work back, that is something we haven t seen since the early 1980 s and indicates we can make progress if congress will do something. let s talk about that the best numbers in 25 years for manufacturing. how? well, it does it in a couple of ways. first in the tax code, he would try to expand a deduction for domestic manufacturing, expand a research and development tax credit to help with innovation, invest more in workforce, our technical college system and shop classes, as you know, ed, have been decimated over the last generation and put more of an emphasis on trade enforcement. that is the key, isn t it? we have $295 billion trailed deficit with china, record last year, we have to get tough we are them. now the leading impediment to getting jobs back in the country, if we have a level playing field as the president
reporter: he also said, apparently, jeb bush and some of his family members did some work back in washington back in the day and so he had a little fun with him there, alex. the president is kicking off education month, this month of march. the president himself along with education secretary arne duncan, they re going to be traveling around the country talking about education reform, one of the things he wants to see this country invest in even as it faces tough fiscal challenges. it was very charmingly funny. hey, look, it s education. it s bipartisan support. it s all good. thank you so much, athena jones. to the clouds hanging around the sunny economic news. gas prices. they spiked across the country with the average gallon of gas jumping 29 cents in the last week and a half. california has the highest prices with a gallon of regular now costing $3.87. a four-hour shift, it wasn t worth my commute to go out to work because i was paying more in gas than i was going to be mak
the brother of marvin bush. apparently the rest of the family also did some work back in washington back in the day. the truth is i ve gotten to know jeb because his family exemplifies public service, and we are so grateful to him for the work that he s doing on behalf of education. so thank you, jeb. now, i just had a chance to take a tour here at miami central. met your outstanding principal, miss turner. i talked to some of the great students who are here. we went through a lab. they had robots.