a tucker: why you re taking government money, you take tens of millions of dollars, as a christian organization doing what you see as a christian duty, why should taxpayers subsidize that? it s a good question, it s interesting because the people that have been critics of ours for taking any money now for helping refugee resettlement, that s not new, we ve been doing it for seven presidential administrations since reagan. it s been an american value for 40 years or multiple in ministrations, when we have helped the government resettle suffering people because they said the public-private partnership works, it s better when communities and churches are part of it, i think people have expected that we would be either defensive or embarrassed about taking government money, were proud that we do this work so well using so many volunteers, thousands of churches, tens of thousands of people to help the government accomplish what it decided to do. spoon wait a second, i get that,
tucker: why you re taking government money, you take tens of millions of dollars, as a christian organization doing what you see as a christian duty, why should taxpayers subsidize that? it s a good question, it s interesting because the people that have been critics of ours for taking any money now for helping refugee resettlement, that s not new, we ve been doing it for seven presidential administrations since reagan. it s been an american value for 40 years or multiple in ministrations, when we have helped the government resettle suffering people because they said the public-private partnership works, it s better when communities and churches are part of it, i think people have expected that we would be either defensive or embarrassed about taking government money, p we re proud that we do this work so well using so many volunteers, thousands of churches, tens of thousands of people to help the government accomplish what it decided to do.
should train those folks right away so that they can do the job. in advancing the dream series tonight, we highlight a program in chicago doing extraordinary work. it s called skills for chicagoland s future, a public/private partnership works with employers to build a pathway to employment for people who don t have jobs. the company then makes a commitment to hire them after training. and this mom s story is one of 700 success stories in the last seven months. because of the weight her son has had to understand that things are different. he s always known mommy to work, considering i received my master s degree about a year and a half ago. mommy was also doing homework while he was doing homework. so he is used to me doing a lot of different things at the same time. but he understands that mommy is looking for a job. reporter: since she has been working with scf, she has noticed a pickup in her job search. my first interview came