Trump takes second crack at a pivot next week with apprentice push

[rooster59]

Trump takes second crack at a pivot next week with apprentice push

By Roberta Rampton

 

U.S. President Donald Trump applauds his aides and staff members looking on as he departs to spend the weekend at his New Jersey golf estate from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S. June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/Files

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, who became a reality television star with a show called "The Apprentice," will spend a lot of time next week promoting a plan to expand apprenticeships to help companies find more skilled workers to fill jobs, the White House said.

 

It would be the second consecutive week in which the White House will make a push to show Trump is moving ahead on his top domestic priority - jobs - in spite of investigations into whether he had anything to do with possible Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

 

Trump has refuted those allegations, which have overshadowed his efforts to boost economic growth.

 

Last week was branded "infrastructure week" with a series of events dealing with fixing the nation's decrepit roads and bridges, another plank in Trump's jobs platform.

 

But a congressional hearing on the Russia imbroglio featuring James Comey - the FBI director Trump fired - sucked up all the attention in Washington.

 

Next week will be "workforce development week" where the White House highlights plans to combat the skills gap. U.S. job openings surged to a record high in April with government data showing employers struggling to find workers with the right skills.

 

Trump's plan has been in the works for months, led by his daughter Ivanka Trump, adviser Reed Cordish, and Trump's secretaries of labor, education and commerce.

 

The White House was mum on the precise details of Trump's plan to expand apprenticeships ahead of his unveiling it in a speech at the Labor Department on Wednesday.

 

    A real estate developer who is familiar with the use of apprenticeship programs in the building trades, Trump has praised Germany's apprenticeship system as a model.

 

    Ivanka Trump discussed the issue with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House in March, and toured a Siemens

training center in Berlin in April.

 

Trump will travel to Wisconsin on Tuesday to visit a training program at Waukesha County Technical College with Republican Governor Scott Walker, a former rival in the race to become the 2016 Republican presidential candidate.

 

On Wednesday, Ivanka Trump will hold a roundtable on the issue with 15 CEOs at the White House. The president will then meet with eight governors on Thursday to discuss the topic at the White House. The White House declined to say which CEOs and governors would be there.

 

One thing that likely will not be in Trump's plan: a surge in spending. The White House expects the private sector to take the lead.

 

A senior White House official said the federal government had allocated $16.7 billion to 43 job training programs in 13 agencies in fiscal 2017.

"It's not a money question. There's a lot of money out there being thrown at this," the official said.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-06-11

[darksidedog]

You would expect that this should be a nice non controversial subject for him to work at, while trying to deflect focus on Russia and other criticisms. I suspect though that something will pop up to rock the boat. Nothing seems simple with Donald around, apart from the man himself.

[tonray]

Ivanka Trump will hold a roundtable with 15 CEOs at the White House. It might be more fitting if she held a seminar for entitled rich kids and how to look the other way as long as the dough keeps flowing.

[Credo]

It is not the relatively small number of privileged few who need help getting a job under a CEO.   It is the thousands upon thousands much further down the food chain who need an opportunity for a job.   

[sujoop]

Hopefully this isn't yet another dog n' pony show and redundant coal miners etc will have access to retraining for new jobs in the fastest growing energy sector (like solar, wind and clean energy .. Doh... forgot, nevermind then). Also one wonders if any of this will ever come to fruition anyways, like many previous  'empty pronouncements'.
 

Meanwhile:

China Detains Activists Probing Ivanka Trump's Shoe Factory: Reports
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-detains-activists-probing-ivanka-065659695.html

 

[attrayant]

What happened to Trump's pledge to "Work every single day"?

 

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Later in the day Sunday, he spent four hours playing golf and dining with Sen. Bob Corker and former NFL quarterback Peyton Manning at his club in Virginia. It was the second day in a row he’d golfed and, by our count, the 22nd time he’s played golf since he was elected president. He was back in the White House by 2:30 p.m.

 

[ilostmypassword]

To all conservatives: This story is what a nothingburger looks like.

[Srikcir]

8 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Next week will be "workforce development week" where the White House highlights plans to combat the skills gap.

Unemployed coal miners need not apply. Please wait your turn for a coal mine owner to call you.

Trump has deemed you untrainable beyond your current mining skills.

[hyperHowie]

1 hour ago, ilostmypassword said:

To all conservatives: This story is what a nothingburger looks like.

Except Hairspray Donny [Trump] is not really a Conservative

Edited June 11, 2017 by hyperHowie
Forgot letter A

[ilostmypassword]

1 hour ago, hyperHowie said:

Except Hairspray Donny [Trump] is not really a Conservative

He has appointed an very right wing conservative to the supreme court who is very anti-labor.

He wants to slash medicaid.

he wants to massively cut taxes for the rich 

he is undoing environmental protection

he wants to deregulate the big banks

he wants to defund Planned Parenthood

 

Not a conservative?  If you want to know someone's real politics, follow the money

[Morch]

3 hours ago, attrayant said:

What happened to Trump's pledge to "Work every single day"?

 

 

All work and no play makes Donald a dull President.

Oh, wait..

Edited June 11, 2017 by Morch

[humqdpf]

14 minutes ago, ilostmypassword said:

He has appointed an very right wing conservative to the supreme court who is very anti-labor.

He wants to slash medicaid.

he wants to massively cut taxes for the rich 

he is undoing environmental protection

he wants to deregulate the big banks

he wants to defund Planned Parenthood

 

Not a conservative?  If you want to know someone's real politics, follow the money

It depends on what kind of conservative you are talking about

Many conservatives would consider his supreme court judice fairly middle of the road, yes not exactly very liberal. But then many Democrat presidents were not exactly pro-labor unions either (viz what the Kennedys were doing to the Teamsters).

Many conservatives think that if you have works and paid your dues, you should get medicaid if you are entitled.

Many conservatives are in agreement to reducing government involvement in the economy and to keeping income taxes as low as possible but they still think that the rich should pay their share.

When it comes to bans, conservatives are often the most interventionist - some conservatives want to impose the old Gold Standard on the banking system (Ron Paul). And we have to remember that it was a Democrat, Bill Clintion, who repealed the Glass-Stegall Act.

There is a strand of conservativism that was deeply involved in protecting the environment. It is the sort of conservativism that was closely allied with nationalism, with the preservation of our forrests, rivers etc as a form of national pride and in keeping with the conservative view of being close to the land.

Planned parenthood covers a lot of territory, from family planning to emergency abortion. I find that the best indicator as to whether you would agree to a family member having an abortion would be religious beliefs and not political position.

Having said that, there are or at least were conservatives who believed that the Government should stay the hell out of people's lives and allow them to make their own choices - abortion being one of them.

 

I do agree with your statement, follow the money. Especially in Trump's case, it is all about money. There is nothing ideological about him. It is all money. Follow the money and you will find out why Trump, who used to identify as a Democrat, is not supposed to be a conservative and a Republican.

[ilostmypassword]

1 minute ago, humqdpf said:

It depends on what kind of conservative you are talking about

Many conservatives would consider his supreme court judice fairly middle of the road, yes not exactly very liberal. But then many Democrat presidents were not exactly pro-labor unions either (viz what the Kennedys were doing to the Teamsters).

Many conservatives think that if you have works and paid your dues, you should get medicaid if you are entitled.

Many conservatives are in agreement to reducing government involvement in the economy and to keeping income taxes as low as possible but they still think that the rich should pay their share.

When it comes to bans, conservatives are often the most interventionist - some conservatives want to impose the old Gold Standard on the banking system (Ron Paul). And we have to remember that it was a Democrat, Bill Clintion, who repealed the Glass-Stegall Act.

There is a strand of conservativism that was deeply involved in protecting the environment. It is the sort of conservativism that was closely allied with nationalism, with the preservation of our forrests, rivers etc as a form of national pride and in keeping with the conservative view of being close to the land.

Planned parenthood covers a lot of territory, from family planning to emergency abortion. I find that the best indicator as to whether you would agree to a family member having an abortion would be religious beliefs and not political position.

Having said that, there are or at least were conservatives who believed that the Government should stay the hell out of people's lives and allow them to make their own choices - abortion being one of them.

 

I do agree with your statement, follow the money. Especially in Trump's case, it is all about money. There is nothing ideological about him. It is all money. Follow the money and you will find out why Trump, who used to identify as a Democrat, is not supposed to be a conservative and a Republican.

What in Neal Gorsuch's judicial career marks him as anywhere near the middle of the road?

Medicaid is mostly for poor people and the elderly. Payments made into it come nowhere close to supporting its expenses.

Kennedy went against the Teamsters because they were massively corrupt. The Teamsters then became a Republican supporting union.

Well, Clinton called himself a new democrat. But Democrats in the House overwhelmingly voted against the repeal of Glass Steagall.  But Republicans voted even more overwhelmingly in favor. And in the Senate, among democrats it won by 1 vote, Among Senate Republicans, a landslide.

And where is that strand of conservatism that supports environmentalism today? Applauding an environmental nightmare of a person to head the EPA. And the party that once supported carbon taxes now is virtually unanimous in its opposition to taking steps to ameliorate of human-caused global warming.

As for abortions, you've got to be kidding. 68 percent of Republicans who identify as conservative are for abortion being illegal in all or most cases. Among moderate Republicans that number drops to 41

Among conservative democrats that number drops to 38 percent

Among liberal democrats 14 percent.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/08/on-abortion-persistent-divides-between-and-within-the-two-parties-2/

 

The kind of conservatism you are talking about is nearly extinct.

And I don't really care what Trump believes. It's what he does. And overwhelmingly what he does aligns with the conservative  wing of the Republican party. Although to call it a wing of the Republican party is a misnomer when it's virtually everything but a few tail feathers.

 

[Credo]

5 hours ago, attrayant said:

What happened to Trump's pledge to "Work every single day"?

 

 

Good God man, don't encourage him!!

[dunroaming]

10 hours ago, tonray said:

Ivanka Trump will hold a roundtable with 15 CEOs at the White House. It might be more fitting if she held a seminar for entitled rich kids and how to look the other way as long as the dough keeps flowing.

Will she be using an Ouija board at the round table?  May as well

[mrwebb8825]

I swear the Trump Haters in here would find a way to besmirch free meals for the homeless if it was a Trump family member involved.

 

I think it's a great idea for corporations to hold open recruitment for all undergraduates throughout the country, no matter which college or university they are studying at, to apply practical experience to their chosen fields of study.

If Obama and Clinton had proposed this 2 yrs ago this same bunch on here would be pinning wings and haloes on them and marching for sainthoods.