The administration is looking at another round of sanctions against russia. This, as secretary of state foreignets with ministers on the issues in ukraine. With callsg to begin and comments on a government job Training Program. Another 600 Million Dollars being allocated yesterday. Do you think they were . We are dividing our phone lines between republicans, democrats, and independents. Partso want to hear from and unemployed. That number is 202 5853883. At can send in a tweet cspanwj. Morning. Sday the start of the holy weekend for christians around the weekend, culminating with easter around on sunday. Rescue effort as hundreds are missing and presumed dead as the ferry off the coast of south korea. Is the headline from the pittsburgh postgazette. The president is traveling to a Community College in allegheny county, discussing a job training model. The president held out the job Training Programs at the Community College as a national model. He joined Vice President biden to promote the need to match the needs of the economy. It brought a rare sight of air force one and air force two parked next to each other at the international airport. The president described taking a little road trip. Refocusing 600 million in federal funds to focus on Community College programs. [video clip] i am taking two significant actions that do not require congress. [applause] first, we have asked more Community College is to do what you have done in allegheny county. Localar out what skills employers are looking for and partner with them to help decide the curriculum and prepare students for those jobs. Progression from Community College programs to industry recognized credentials and credit towards a college degree. I am now sing that we are going to award nearly 500 million to those i am announcing that we are going to award nearly 500 million to those institutions that are doing the best. Comments with 600 million in additional federal taxpayer dollars to pay for the program. The question is do they work . Our phone lines are open. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. And we have a line for independence as well. Caller i think this program will work like all of his other programs pretty much a failure if he is running it. Talkingning they are about how he is going to divert from the moneyt they were supposed to use to revitalize some of the neighborhood houses to his Union Buddies so they can get their thanement at a wage higher what they make. It is typical obama. Host what you think the role of the federal government should be . Caller they should leave it up to the schools, the private sector. Host thank you for the call. Bobby, petersburg, virginia. Caller good morning. No, they do not work. Nothing seems to be working. , with retired vet honorable discharge, have a degree from the university, and i have not had an interview with anyone that is considered Veterans Affairs or anyone else. These programs do not work. Host jeffrey, gary, indiana. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host go ahead. Caller i think the programs are set to make slaves. It does not teach you how to create wealth. It teaches you how to work for someone else. Host the appearance by the president designed to highlight a firefighter Million DollarGrant Program for Community Colleges efforts to focus on job training. The president described a related plan to target an additional 100 Million Dollars for competitive grants to encourage apprentice ship programs. Ship he also said the Vice President has the task of addressing the effectiveness of these programs. These programs will focus on funds already in the federal budget pipeline. They do not depend on any new action by congress. The toledo from blade. Caller my comment is that i am 74 years old. I spent many years as a supervisor in manufacturing. Comes to job training, it depends on what the job training is. Not everybody is going to be a Nuclear Physicist or a brain surgeon. There are people that need jobs, that are maybe 50 years old, that maybe need some special training, but when we send all our jobs overseas to be done by such, it isand the not fair to the workforce. If you want to have a job Training Program, you have to have the jobs for these people to walk out of school and go into. I talked to a fellow yesterday helping me on my steps. He was a very intelligent guy. He has a college degree. Jobs he hasof the had, he never ever needed the degree for. He was hired because he had the degree. Host donald, thank you for the call. View, montana, next. Frank is on the phone. Caller i had out of the air force in 1963. I bummed around for a couple of month and decided to find work. Was i did not have something i could use in the civilian life. Corps to the job service and checked out what they had for training. Jfk put in the manpower training map. I went to school for a year. I was a Major ApplianceService Technician the rest of my life. I am retired. I had to retire. I wore myself out. That is what you need that training to go directly into a job. C. O. T. School a to upgrade my rating as a technician in industrial i was goingand through a divorce, but it helped me on troubleshooting. Host thank you for the call,rank, from butte montana. The president announced another 600 million to try to train those for the jobs in the 21st century. Do these jobTraining Programs work . Some other stories we want to share with you this is from the l. A. Times. John kerry arriving in geneva for talks going on at this hour. Three militants killed in attack on ukrainebased. The Ukraine National guard forces killed three and wounded 13. They detained to 63 armed militants that attacked their unit. The armed gang attacked the unit late yesterday, number at about 300 grade they were allegedly led by russian agents. The ukraines acting interior minister said that after they threw molotov cocktails into the unit and opened fire at soldiers on the ground, the National Guard opened fire and warned them they would shoot to kill. You can read more details on what happened at latimes. Com. Joining us from portland, oregon. Good morning. I was in a program at portland Community College which led me to a 25 career in 25 year career in technology. These programs are essential in getting these jobs back here in the United States. Host what kind of skills did you get . Information technology. Host franklin, thank you for the call. Nashville, tennessee. I do not believe the jobs programs are working because there are no jobs to be filled after you finish them. That has been my experience. We do not seem to be interested in hiring workers over 50, no matter what skills they have. Dakotaandy, hogan, south. I think the job programs work if they are not negative and approach it with a positive attitude. I became a registered nurse at the age of 47. I have had good jobs ever since. Host you are looking at a live iew of the entrance of the white house. He is meeting with insurance executives after traveling. Way for the administration to draw attention to their efforts. A phone call took place between the president and the House Republican leader, eric cantor. Writes about it. Hours after the president sharply criticized house earlierans for stalling this year. The president was trying to wish eric cantor a happy passover. The wednesday phone call was disclosed when cantor said this. The president called me after he issued a partisan statement that attacked me and my fellow republicans. He has notyears, learned how to effectively work with congress to get things done. Earlier in the day, the president issued a statement in which he said the senate did pass a conference of a bill. Hensive immigration unfortunately, republicans have failed to take actions. Not cantor said the talk to sit well with him or other republicans. White house officials insist the call was to wish eric cantor a happy passover. The issue of Immigration Reform just happened to come up. You can read more on politico. Com. The speaker of the house, john boehner issuing this web video. [video clip] times are tough for hardworking people and republicans are working to turn things around. Now, there are roughly 10. 5 million americans looking for work. 4 million job openings remain unfilled. Experts attribute this to a skills gap. Every year, taxpayers spend 18 billion on jobs training problems. Only a fraction of workers receive the training necessary to get a job. Drawings , our our job Training System has not been upgraded. It is time to close the gap, empower students and workers, provide them with opportunities to get ahead. That is why, as part of a larger jobs plan, we have passed the skills act, which will give workers the skills they need when they need it. To learn more about how republicans are helping close speaker. Gov jobs. That response to the president s comments in pittsburgh. Youre looking at a live view of the capitol this morning. You will see some scaffolding go up around it. It is part of a twoyear 60 million product. Capital is cast iron in the work will be done, including the installation of scaffolding and repairing some of the ornaments, as well as painting. You can go to the washington for all of the extensive work that will be done over the next two years. You can see the live look at the u. S. Capitol. Government jobs Training Programs to they work . Caller good morning. I am really flabbergasted. My fellow American People always so negative about everything . Everything is no, no, no, it does not work. It does work. I am a proud austrianamerican. Socialistin a democratic government. The program does work for anybody that does not go to college not everybody can, perhaps. Especially in the United States. There are the programs. In high schools, already, you are entered into job programs and that is how you learned the trade from ground up. You get the experience. It does work. Employer, it the is always the employers discretion to hire the people that he or she wants. Implement these job programs, they will work. Listen to the people that have been through there. Before,leman that was that went through there, the lady who became a nurse. And gos sake, wake up to these jobtraining. The jobs are there. You have to be willing to work. Have a good day. There is this headline as the president unveils the jobs grant, traveling with joe jobs rows push for new graham has been made more urgent according to Senior Administration officials. There is this point on our twitter page. My Community College hires were trained on technology that was a least five years behind private practice technology. All of this is tied into the extension of Unemployment Benefits. The house gop plan would eliminate and streamlined 30 plus separate federally funded workforce programs. Details from the speaker of the house and it would allow the government to consolidate different programs and streamlined Administration Workforce programs. Gabby, the biloxi, mississippi. Looking forou are something negative, you will find it. I am a product of the neighborhood you score. I am now licensed in social work. Product of the cedar program. He is certified wastewater treatment. It works. America, get ready. It works. Host do you think these jobTraining Programs work . That is what we are asking. The white house sent out this tweet, related to the president s visit to the pittsburgh area. 87 of apprentices have jobs with a starting wage of more than 50,000. The average wage is 51,522. Hashtag is actonjobs. Caller i have been unemployed since 2001. I am on disability. I would like to become a businessman. Need to be employed in america. Peoplein the city and are unemployed. They need things to do so they will not hang on the corner and be mischievous and get in trouble. Host thank you for the call. Speaker boehner with this tweet. If the president wants to act on jobs and deal with skills training, he can help us get the skills act to his desk. This is part of the republicans plan that we highlighted a moment ago. Catherine, good morning. Caller i called because i cannot understand why middle and lower income republicans would not be for a jobs training do theyand also, why support lower taxes for the richest americans and big business . I have come to the conclusion, they are hoping to hit the jackpot, hoping to become one of the 1 , hoping to become one in a million millions winner of big money. I call these lottery republicans. Thank you. Host thank you, catherine. If you are parttime, or unemployed, the number is 202 5853883. From you as we discussed the government jobTraining Programs and whether or not you think they work. The president s Foreign Policy and domestic agenda is the subject of this piece. Obama to standoff with moscow to him as plans at home and abroad. And russiasrisis newly combative stance has scrambled the world map around which president obama has faced shaped his foreignpolicy doctrine and stand to alter the arc of his presidency. It has created political complications from u. S. Makers who are pressing him to be more confrontational with Vladimir Putin. Could beanctions imposed on russia if the planned that do not show sign moscow intends to deescalate tensions. We will get more coming up later in this halfhour. Kay is joining us from california. Independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. The jobst regarding Training Program i think it is a Wonderful Program to start with. I support anything that is going to get americans back to work. I think this will. I have not read the bill and i whether these to are loans that more Student Loans that we are going to be taking out or how it is going to that wouldnything get americans back to work, i am all for it. I am an older american. I am in my 50s. I took advantage of a couple of programs. Programthe manpower ack in high schools and i got. For electronics and that gave me work for a wild. All of the for a while. Went overseas. It was a temporary fix for my situation. I paid Student Loans back on that. Host how much were they . Then, i took out a student loan, keep in mind, this was back when you could get a beautiful home for 28,000. My student loan was only 4000 at the time. Minimum wage at the time was right around two dollars and something. Is going onto what now, which i graduated and got a skills, got another diploma in Computer Support technology. Impossible tot get work. Programse any of these government funded or in the private sector . Caller the government came in on the last part of the most recent. It was a ninemonth program, or 10 month program. Host thank you for the call. You mentioned overseas. And that is the subject of this story this morning. The president is traveling to asia next week. The president s bid to focus attention on asia has failed to meet the lofty expectations he in a grandears ago pronouncement that the new emphasis would become a pillar of his foreignpolicy. It has resulted in a loss of conference confidence among some u. S. Allies about the administrations commitment at a time of escalating regional tensions. Between japan and south korea are at one of the lowest points since world war ii and china has provoked both with aggressive actions at sea despite a personal plea from to beijing from Vice President biden. Economist is talking about the republican party. Isays jack kemp revival selected. Theailed to win republican nomination. Hawkish, cold warrior, he would pull up the drawbridge on Foreign Policy favored by rand paul. The bleeding heart conservative argued against cuts in social programs. Republicans should pay heed. Too many boast of that america is a Majority Center right country, only to turn around and enthuses out the low term midterm elections. Republican state governments seem drawn to policies that shrink the electorate. At can read Details Online theeconomist. Com. Jobs Training Programs do they work . Ashburn, virginia, greg. Good morning. Caller good morning. The programs work. I did a lot of volunteer time to get some experience in the very beginning. It paid off very well for me. Host thank you for the call. Gene says we are over lawyered and overtaught. Not overdr. A, doctored. Next, robert, kansas city, kansas. Welcome to the program. Caller i came up during the era of a lot of the jobTraining Programs put a lot of people to work. When i was 16 years old, i used to have to get up at 3 00 in the 10g to ride 25 miles miles and pick up several students all over the two western, electric, we all worked, the important thing work ethic. You do not get something for nothing. Today, i graduated from after a scholarship and was trained as a teacher. I did not take a teaching job at the time. The requirements change. To take a test. You have to go back to school. The problem with our jobs is the system and jobs do not mesh. Training. More i do drafting. All of those jobs have gone overseas because they exc