Sec. McMahon: ‘Where Education Is in Our Country Is Absolutely a Crisis... It Is a National Emergency’

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MCMAHON: “I said to the president this morning in the cabinet meeting that I think where education is in our country is absolutely a crisis in our country. It is a national emergency. Because of all the wonderful things that this president is bringing in -- new manufacturing, we're raising levels of investments all across the country. But if we don't build a workforce and if we don't train people to go into these jobs --“
ASMAN: “Yeah. Yeah.”
MCMAHON: “-- where are we going to be?”