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Ivanka emerges as Trump’s jobs czar, focus on ‘forgotten men and women’

by Paul Bedard
| September 03, 2018 09:53 AM

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Ivanka Trump never planned to become her father’s jobs czar.
But as she traveled on his winning 2016 presidential campaign that stopped in many once-thriving industrial cities, she heard first hand about the plight of “forgotten” workers who saw hope in Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda.
“She would meet moms who wanted to support their family but didn’t either have a skill set or wanted to go back into the workforce and weren’t sure how, weren't sure how to find a job. She met dads who wanted to earn wages where they could support their family but didn’t have the right skills,” said a senior administration official.

The first daughter also heard from highly educated friends in the same boat. She recently cited pals who graduated from Princeton University with “no skills to actually compete in the workforce.”

Ivanka Trump, daughter of then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, poses for photographs with workers after a round-table discussion of local businesswomen at Middletown Tube Works, a welded steel tube supplier, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, in Middletown, Ohio. John Minchillo/AP

And as the economy has boomed, she also heard from companies seeking skilled workers.
In a way, the role she now has in leading the administration’s effort to boost jobs training for preschoolers to retirees picked her.
“She spent two years on the campaign and heard first hand how people felt like they were the forgotten man or woman and how nobody was looking out for them. That really resonated with her,” said the official.
Now, as the nation celebrates the 136th Labor Day, Ivanka is the face of the administration’s effort to boost jobs training, tighten the focus on computers and high-tech in schools and make vocational education just as cool as a Princeton degree.
“The great reward of national service is seeing the policies and initiatives we’re working on uplifting and making more prosperous Americans of all ages and backgrounds,” she told Secrets. “The president pledged to fight for the forgotten men and women of this country, and he asked me to lead this effort to create economic growth and job creation through workforce development and vocational training to do just that,” she added.

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Ivanka Trump Retweeted CNBC
As U.S. unemployment remains at historic lows, worker wages are rising! This Administration is delivering on its promise of creating increased economic opportunity + prosperity for ALL Americans.

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Worker pay rate hits highest level since 2008. https://cnb.cx/2AxM3ES
6:21 AM - 1 Aug 2018

It’s an effort the country seems eager for. A new John Zogby Strategies report released Monday said that half the nation feels colleges do not provide students with the proper skills for jobs. And even Democrats -- like Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine -- are campaigning on the issue.
Once expected to return to New York with her husband Jared Kushner, the duo have become Washington’s policy power couple with a long list of accomplishments.


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Proud to share with @IvankaTrump how Iowa is educating children for the knowledge economy. I got to show off the amazing things happening at @WaukeeAPEX, @CentralCampusDM, @IowaBIG and @rocketmfg. Just a few examples of Iowa's leadership in STEM/work-based learning #iagov


8:39 AM - 14 Dec 2017

Ivanka’s latest win was having the president sign the revamped Perkins Act jobs training package now dubbed the “Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act.” It set aside $1.2 billion annually for programs in states to help 11 million students. And it came with fewer strings attached than earlier versions.
It was one of several in which Ivanka has lobbied both Congress and her father for. Her impact list includes:

• Working to help win the GOP tax cuts.
• Doubling the child tax credit.
• Designing the presidents “Pledge to America’s Workers,” which has won promises by hundreds of companies like IBM to create 4.2 million jobs.
• Helping to create and launch the National Council for the American Worker, tasked with developing a workforce strategy to expand apprenticeships, skills training opportunities and encourage investment worker education while consolidating more than 40 workforce-training programs in over a dozen agencies.
• Seeing that Trump included a paid family leave program in his annual budgets.
• Championing increased access to STEM and Computer Science education for students, the focus of a 2017 presidential memo.

Ivanka, said Marc Short, the former White House top lobbyist, has made jobs and worker training “a priority.”
Along the way, according to officials, she has also developed close working relationships with key lawmakers and moved on other passions, such as her campaign to combat human trafficking.
“She has proven to be adroit at Washington politics, which is saying lots for someone not from here. She has an ability to congregate the right people around the table to get things accomplished,” added a friend of Ivanka’s.
The administration’s efforts seem to be working. Hiring is up, more firms are offering apprenticeships, and schools around the country are putting more money into computer and high-tech classes.

“What it does for her is give the satisfaction at seeing that there are policies and other things that are being worked on by this administration that will help American working families. That is putting people on paths to good paying jobs and are helping middle income families feel relief and feel good and feel success,” said a top administration official.
“For her it’s pride in what this administration is doing and excitement because there is a lot of opportunity here,” the official added.

Washington Secrets

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/w...-men-and-women

It's Labor Day, Not Union Day

This Labor Day, when most Americans pause to celebrate workers and their contributions to our nation, union bosses will again attempt to hijack the holiday to promote their agenda of coercive power over America’s workers...

Mon, 09/03/2018 - 16:00

Authored by Mark Mix via The Daily Caller,

This Labor Day, when most Americans pause to celebrate workers and their contributions to our nation, union bosses will again attempt to hijack the holiday to promote their agenda of coercive power over America’s workers.


Despite the union boss talking points, there is still much to celebrate this Labor Day. Workers coast to coast have made substantial gains for workplace freedom in recent months.
Look no further than the Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFSCME, which protects the First Amendment, constitutional rights of at least five million public sector workers across the country.
Under the Janus decision, argued and won by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, every public employee is now protected from being fired for refusing to pay union dues or fees. This leaves the choice to join or financially support a labor union with the individual workers union officials claim to represent.
In other words, union officials must work for rank-and-file workers to earn their dues, instead of employees paying union bosses simply to keep their job.
While Janus recognizes that the First Amendment makes union payments voluntary for public employees, an increasing number of states have been passing Right to Work laws to ensure that private sector workers have the same freedom of choice when it comes to union membership and dues.
Although the heightened levels of accountability are making union officials nervous, the concept of worker freedom from coercion is widely supported by the public. Poll after poll shows that 8 in 10 Americans oppose forced union dues and affiliation.
Since 2012, five states have seen new Right to Work laws go into effect. Not only do these laws protect workers’ free choice, but the elimination of forced unionism also gives a boost to the state economy.
For example, just days after the start of 2017, Kentucky passed a Right to Work law that went into effect immediately. U.S. Labor Department data show that 43,000 net new people were added to Kentucky’s employment rolls last year.
Compare this to Missouri, where a Big Labor forced-dues funded ballot initiative blocked the state’s Right to Work law from taking effect. From 2016 to 2017, while neighboring Kentucky enjoyed its employment boost, Missouri’s total number of employed people dropped by nearly 3000.
Right to Work brings clear economic benefits and the support of most American workers who like the choice it provides. Yet union bosses claim that giving employees the right to choose to support a labor union is anti-worker.
For union officials, political activism takes precedence over the priorities of the rank-and-file far too often. Its multi-billion dollar political machine – fed by union dues – enables Big Labor to wield immense clout in Washington, D.C., and state capitals, even though much of that money is spent on candidates and causes opposed by many of the workers union officials claim to represent.
For union officials, their privileges pay off. After all, why bother with the hard work of representing employees as long as they are sitting on a forced-dues revenue stream guaranteed by a government-granted special power?
If union membership, representation, and dues payment were strictly voluntary, union officials would have to earn workers’ support, and officials would need to be accountable and responsive to the rank-and-file or else face a loss of revenue. Instead, workers pay billions each year to union bosses simply because they would lose their jobs if they did not.
Perhaps this Labor Day, union officials should take a step back and reexamine how reliant they are on government-granted compulsory powers…and how this causes millions of American workers to view them as out of touch with those they seek to “represent.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...-not-union-day

The American Dream Has Vanished In The "Greatest Economy Ever"

Over 80% of American families define the “American Dream” as financial security and homeownership, and more than half think this dream is unattainable...

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...t-economy-ever

It takes 30 years to pay off a mortgage for most people. That dream is not attainable during the first 2 years of an administration that at most will only last a total of 8 years. Home ownership needs to be removed from the dream. Home ownership is a fixed asset in a location that due to the location of jobs that move is no longer an asset, it's a burden. Young people are figuring this out and investing their money in other things, as they should. They want money and freedom, not an expensive asset in a fixed location with 30 years of fixed and rising costs.