American Workforce Policy Advisory Board Meeting, Part 2


American Workforce Policy Advisory Board Meeting at the White House

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Thank you very much busy time, so making a lot of progress with the whole situation that came in from a place called China. You probably know, you probably see, but we have a little work to do and we’ll get it done. We’re having some very good numbers coming out in terms of the come back, the come back of our nation and I think it’s going very rapidly and it’s going to be very good. But right now we’re in the process of building and it’s an honor that you with us today. We very much appreciate it. I’m delighted to welcome members of the Workforce Policy Advisory Board and I want to thank you vodka. She works very hard on this board. She works very hard to get jobs, and, uh, it’s made in the USA and Jobs in the USA. I saw a group of your people yesterday having to do with ships. You’re involved in that partnership and it’s fantastic. What they’re doing in Wisconsin was really a great day. The, uh, secretary of Treasury is with us and he’s worked very hard and I think he’s got some very good things to say and some pretty big news. And Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Labor, Jean Scalia, Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos and small business administrator has definitely kept busy. Jovita was. You’ll be a good Vedic Lorenza. Thanks also to our governor, Kim Reynolds, who’s done terrific. Lee Kim like him. Nice to see you. Thank you very much. And they’re a call. Come Governor of Indiana. And we always recognize Eric cause he’s how Told you, Eric? She was pretty tall guy, right? But we have one that’s a little told her. You know what that is? Alaska. You know that, right? You’re doing a great job. We appreciate it as well as the CEOs who have signed our pledge to American workers. Maryland, Houston, thank you very much. Of Lockheed Martin, Sebastian thurn of Udacity and Ginny Rometty of IBM. I want to thank you all. You’ve been really hear from from the beginning very much from the beginning, and we appreciate it very much. Together we built the greatest economy in history and literally in the history of the world greatest we’ve ever had the greatest the world has ever seen. And now we have to bring it back because we had a close in order to save millions of lives. We added 2.5 million jobs last month, which was incredible and number, the largest monthly increase in history and more than double the previous record. So we’re bringing it back. We had the greatest ever and we had to close it, and now we bring it back and we start off with 2.5 million jobs in one month. I would say that’s pretty good Maryland right? That’s the highest ever done. And then likewise, retail sales surged by nearly 18% last month. That was the biggest jump ever recorded. So that’s great. The stock market is seen. You go back a week. One week. It’s so the best 50 days in its history. Best 50 day increase in the history of the stock markets pledged to America’s workers has secured commitments over 16 million job and training opportunities from employers nationwide, and some of the employers are with us and they’ve been fantastic. I want to, uh, thank the American people for doing such an incredible job. They understand what’s happening and they see how fast we’re turning it around. I want toe uh, just state that this is Americans of all backgrounds that we’re talking about to have the chance. We want to get them the chance to learn and to build a successful career. We want to train Americans, and we want to hire Americans. So we’re training American and we’re hiring American before the pledge, and this is a very big factor. May we have a a, uh, problem that has about 22 different names, but I’ll just call it the Plague. But before the plague struck, we had the lowest African American and Hispanic American Asian American unemployment ever. We had the most jobs we’ve ever had. Almost 160 million jobs. We’ve never been in a position like that. Women were thriving. Best numbers ever. And since my election, more than half of those jobs more than half first time that’s ever happened, went to women. Uh, but now we want to, Ah, get that all back. The African American group got hit very hard. The Hispanic American group got hit very hard. Essentially all groups got hit hard, but now it’s all coming back to further expand opportunity. I’m taking a bold action to reform the federal workforce. Today I’ll sign an executive order that directs the federal government to replace outdated and really outdated. It’s called degree based hiring, with skill based tiring So we wanted based on scale. The federal government will no longer be narrowly focused on where you went to school, but the skills and the talents that you bring to the job. We want that skill to be there we wanted based on merit. We’ve looked at married for a long time, and we’ve been able to get that done. And today signing is a very, very important one. I think maybe before I signed I’ll ask you about going to say a few words and then we’ll go around a little bit, will pick a few people and then we’ll sign and we go back to work. Thank you very much, Ivanka. Thank you, Mr President and honor to have you here. We just convened our sixth meeting of our workforce advisory board and we got an update on the team’s response to your bold call to action. First we’re going to be launching and Ginny Rometty, in partnership with Tim Cook, spearheaded this group a massive advertising campaign that directs those that need to re skill. Learning new trade to secure a job to the resource is to enable them to do that. So we’re very excited about the launch of this private sector led and driven campaign to match Americans with the training they need and ultimately the job vacancies that exist. The advisory board is also creating a serious ease of pilot programs, and Scott Pulsipher and Doug McMillon had been running thes groups where we really think about how we create the resumes of the future and allow people to find job vacancies based on skill and for employers to connect with those unemployed workers again based on skill, so creating a lot more efficiency to that process. You are once again leading by example here today, with the CEO signing as the nation’s largest employer, we are always seeking to recruit and retain the best and the brightest to serve the American people. Last December, you fought for and secured paid leave For every federal worker. This was a first. Creating a workplace that reflects our American values of both work and family and helping us retain are amazing talent. It’s also why you fought so hard this spring when Covitz strapped to secure paid sick leave for Americans employed by small businesses, an additional funding for childcare providers helping millions and millions of Americans remain employed and providing relief to small businesses across the country. This is going to ensure a faster and stronger recovery today. We’re taking that next step as you mentioned and signing an executive order that directs federal agencies to hire based on skills and knowledge, not just outdated degree requirements. This will allow us to better recognize the talents and confidences of all Americans. We hire you built once the most inclusive economy in this country’s history annual Build it again through a pledge to America’s workers. The private sector has committed to investing in the training and education of over 16 million American students and workers. And this continues despite the vast change that that the plague ushered in companies like Udacity, Sebastian Thrun, Joys says today, have been leading the way, and they’ve been using their pledge commitment and fulfilling it by providing free tech training to American workers. Laid off is a result of Cove it. I recently had the opportunity to virtually meet one of the students that went through your program and received a scholarship in conjunction with the pledge, and it was incredible. His name was Tony. He was a lifelong truck driver. He owned his own business. It was a single rigged that he had through a series of setbacks. The company ended up going under. He signed up for a course in Tech and is now a software engineer, providing for his family absolutely loving what he does. And there are many, many stories like Tony that hopefully will inspire millions across the nation. Maryland Houston, also in early pledge signer of Lockheed Martin, committed to hiring during the pandemic, using virtual technology and other techniques to ensure recruitment processes move forward. So with more people teleworking and learning from home than ever before, we have a lot to accomplish in the months ahead. And I’m really excited about your effort to extend this working group and to reform our federal hiring practices as we think about building that inclusive American economy as we transition to greatness. So so thank you for today, and it’s a pleasure to have you join. Thank you very much. Great job really has been It’s been a labor of love, and Ivanka loves helping people a wonderful thing. Maryland. How about starting with you? Well, thank you, Mr President. It’s really an honor to serve on this policy board. And I must say, I agree with you. Advisers Trump, Ivanka Trump and Secretary Ross have led us. Well, we at a great effort over the last several meetings and put forward some strong recommendations that I help help to match the skills together with the jobs that are there. And Lockheed Martin, we’re proud that this year we’re on a path to higher 12,000 people, and a lot of it is around making sure that we’re getting the kind of apprenticeships and scholarships and skills training for them so that they can link up to jobs in our operation. Thank you. What? You’ve done a great job, and I got to see it again. I mentioned it. It was so impressive. What? I saw the whole group. Yes, that it was really great to be there. I didn’t know you had a big chunk of that one, but he’s done very well with it, so we appreciate it. Please, Sebastian. It’s a great honor to meet you. And I want to thank you for keeping us safe and moving us forward. This has been, of course, if I have time for all of us, 30 million unemployed is our chance to really redefined how education looks like and move into a world where people learn lifelong, have lifelong access and convey unfold their livelihoods. Ivanka was off course, the visionary behind all this and thank you for doing this. Mentioned Tony Possible, a truck driver who I was driving trucks for 10 years and then his truck broke down and he couldn’t finance the new engine that he needed. He was unemployed, had no income, no education, and came across bye bye Randomness a Google scholarship that Udacity launched. And then, in 10 months, time was able to come. Software engineer. These are the stories that I believe this nation needs. I think we have so much opportunity, so much potential in this great nation to bring people forward, and I think this is the time to do it. That’s a great story. It’s an amazing story, Jenny, please. Well, first, Mr President, thank you for your leadership. During this time you and you used an important word when you describe, uh, Ivanka’s contribution here is a labor of love because this is something I think what the team has done collectively will have a very long term impact as well. A short term and we’re solving. Probably you’re working towards helping solve one of the most important problem programs for growth for the country as well, so to help anyone from any social economic background. So I really might might have this often, thanks to Secretary Ross and Teoh Ivanka for having led us through this. And I think what we’re put on the table is substantive change. And I know it is changed a company like mine. So is you signed skills. First, we’ve adopted that 15% of our hires last year war people from nontraditional backgrounds. And so it’s ah, it’s really what this is all about, I think, and giving everyone a break a bright future in the digital era. So thank you for Thank you very much. Thank you, Eric. Well, I just had my appreciation. I mean, what you’re doing today is leveling the playing field, and there’s been a lot of people, lot of have nots that will have an opportunity to join the half and to do it during the time of such challenge. But to recognize the opportunity that’s here and to do it now, there couldn’t be a more important time. So appreciate everyone’s effort around this table on your leadership on this front, and Indiana is doing very well. I’m hearing good things. We are. We’re moving in the right direction. We are. We’ve got 93,000 unfilled jobs right now. We need to fill. We’ve ushered in 100,000 jobs and just 3.5 years. The previous record was 93,000 and four years. These air high wage, high demand jobs, these air $28 north an hour. This is what it’s all about. Skilling the workforce. Great job. Thank you very much, Kim. Well, thank you, Mr President. And why I so appreciate about your administration is it’s really administration of action. You identify barriers and gaps and then you help bring the right people together to find the solutions and enact those. So thank you very much. It’s been an honor to be a part of this advisory board. I appreciate how with the leadership of Ivanka and Secretary Ross. We really have identified the various elements connected those elements, whether it’s been consistent, data definition, goals and messaging. And I look forward to really amplifying that in the state of Iowa by executive order. I just created an economic task force. I brought toe several CEOs, business leaders and nonprofits together to utilize their expertise in the way through innovation, adaptation and creativity adjusted within weeks to the Corona virus. And everything that this group has talked about will fold so well into what we’re trying to do at the state level. And when you think about that happening in every state across the country, we really are going to come back stronger and better and really help provide opportunities for every single American. So thank you for lead, and we see it now, come next year is gonna be we think amazing gonna be an amazing year. Larry would like to say so. Yeah, Thanks, sir. I spoke just before you came, but I’ll just repeat the V shaped recovery. Virtually every number is throwing a V shaped recovery. Now. Private surveys, government statistics, restaurants, homebuilders, truckers, durable goods makers apple mobility and travel gasoline demand, Askew said. The jobs went up really about three million in May. We had tremendous retail sales, actually, today on the income report, we had tremendous consumer spending, 8% at an annual rate for one month. It’s a great story, great number and I still think we get 20% in the second half of the year. And if we get another 5% in the first quarter of next year, we will be right back to the peak in 2019 where you got us the first time with the growth policies. And I just wanted to say Ivanka, I gave you a big pitch, gave you, did the best I could private sector re Skilling and retraining. And not only will people come back to the labor force when there re skilled, they’ll come back with higher wages and they’ll come back with more confidence will make a huge difference as it already has. And so I’ve added you to the four pillars of growth. The president. Good tax cuts could tell you regulation energy, unleashing fair trade deals and private sector led re Skilling. How’s that, sir? That’s great. That’s great. And I’m very happy what you said about early next year and the next year is gonna be an incredible year. Thank you very much. Larry. Wilbur, would you like to say something? Yes, Mr. President. Thank you for the opportunity to help Ivanka and the others on this group. I’ve been very, very impressed with the productivity’s of this advisory board. Most advisory boards create a big thick book at the end. Goes in the library and nothing happens. This group, every single meeting, there’s a specific tangible thing. It gets followed up and it gets implemented. So it’s really been a heartwarming thing to see how productive these folks have been. And I congratulate all of them. Thank you very much. Thank you, Jeanne, please. Thank you, Mr President. And you mentioned that 3.5% unemployment rate just a few months ago. You did so many things for the American worker during this three years. You know, back in the summer of 2016 the Congressional Budget Office said that we’d be at 5% unemployment in February. They said that between then and February 2020 they said would create 1.9 million jobs created seven million jobs. So Larry touched on it. It was his policies of tax cuts of deregulation that brought us there, which was just a wonderful thing for the American worker as jobs were being created and wages were rising. But there was other work going on. And what you see today is a manifestation of other things that were being done that are now gonna have their day to really help workers. We are coming back. Larry’s mention some of the numbers, but we know that the train will be important. And we’re fortunate that this really very extraordinary group and as Secretary Rosses said, a group that really generated valuable product, they were working quietly to help train American workers. I spoke earlier about a new apprenticeship rule that we adopt Labor Department that I think will be very helpful. This will be an important part of a rebound. Thank you very much. Appreciate it, Steve, please. Thank you. Mr President was other. Said your economic team working with you knew how to create jobs and created enormous amount. And because of this virus, we have unfortunately shut down the economy. We know how to reopen the economy safely. Working with Congress, we put $3 trillion it’s beginning to work. We see it, and where are work isn’t gonna be done until every single one of these jobs is done. We know we need a A few more tools will go back to Congress next month, But we’re gonna get everybody back to work. And I’m confident we’re going to see a strong third and fourth quarter. Is we reopened? That’s great, Steve. Thank you very much. Anybody else would like to say something? Anybody, Anybody? This is your chance. Go ahead. Please, Mr President, I just want to say, is your domestic policy chief, what an extraordinary today day today isn’t. And here’s why. It’s not just the work of this council and the leadership of Ivanka. It is the executive order that you are about to sign. That completely resets the playing field. The federal government is the largest employer in the country with two million employees. 2/3 of American adults do not have a college degree. Your signature that is recalibrating the workforce away from being degree only to skill set is transformational and the opportunity for you to fight for all Americans. I think about Tony that Ivanka talked about that Sebastian talked about from Udacity, from a truck driver to a software engineer next, potentially into the federal government. Because of this executive order that is focusing on skills rather than degrees. Congratulations and thank you for your leadership. It’s extraordinary. Anybody. Jovita Yes, President Trump, thank you very much for your strong leadership. You know, I sit in the audience here as part of a participate participation of this particular advisory board, and I’m a recipient of the type of programs that you are actually implementing and supporting. I started as a box handler in a in the world’s largest logistics company. And so when I hear we won’t talk about the dedication of the workforce and establishing some ready comprehensive training, I took advantage of every training opportunity there was in the private sector. And perhaps you’ll see another administrator similar to me based on the programs that you’re going to advocate and support, and because of the public private partnerships that this administration has enabled the paycheck protection program, just one example that has fortified small businesses, sustained the viability and also protected their employees a baseline of about 60 million employees. And so I thank you again for putting in small businesses front and center and one other comment. I’m looking at all of these private sector companies that super leaders in your various sectors. You are the primary contractors for the the subcontractors that I represent as an advocate for small business administration. So once you reinstate your viability, this one business sector will then follow suit soon after. So thank you again. Thank you very much, Jovita. Thank you very much, Mr President. Please. I just appreciate your unrelenting focus on creating opportunity for all Americans, and that begins with opportunities and education. And I so appreciate your leadership there. And it’s been a privilege to be part of this Ivanka and Secretary Ross. Thank you for your work here. We are privileged to carry out your vision in policy and action has Governor Reynolds said, and thank you for your leadership choice. How’s that going? Choice. Right. That’s what we want. Please. I was just going to say thank you, Mr President. From a university’s perspective, it’s often perceived as skills versus degrees. But in reality, in this skills denominated future. It is that tide that lifts all boats because even those who possess degrees they can better articulate the skills and competencies that they now have for the future of work on the reality is to is it’s also more fair or equitable. It’s more prosperous for our workforce because what it really is, is it? It’s now about what you possess of what you can demonstrate not how you acquired the competency in scale. And so it just creates much more of an actual equitable pathway. And w is a competency. Best education provider has always been focused on. How do you articulate the outcomes of achieving a degree in a skills and competency based way? So it’s much more aligned with the future of work. And so it is truly that tide that lifts all boats. So this is a huge step in the right direction. So thank you very much. I agree with you 100%. I must say I do. Okay, what do we sign? And this is a big deal. Congratulations. Everybody in the room. This means a lot. Okay, we’ll do that from Maryland. We’ll take this. Okay? Okay. That’s very good depends for everybody. Well, thank you all very much. We appreciate it. This is really an important day for a lot of reasons, but this is one of them. Thank you all for being with us. We appreciate it very much. Thank you very much.

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