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On the recordJuly 16, 2013
There's much to learn about that. But, again, if you go back to our Make It In America agenda, these issues, the labor market and education, fit into that infrastructure of opportunity. I've always said that if you're going to build an economy and have social justice, there are five things you must always do: First, you must have the best education system in the world that's available to everybody so that they can climb that ladder, as you were saying earlier, that they have that opportunity; Second, that you have a great research system, and we do. Actually, we have 10 campuses of the University of California. Some of the State universities are now picking up some of the research agenda also. But anyway, the research; And then you need to make things coming out of that. That's the manufacturing. And that may be a computer program, or it could be an automobile. But you need to be making things, adding, creating value; The infrastructure being the fourth; And the fifth being you've got to be willing to change. You can't do what you did yesterday; you need to deal with things of tomorrow. There are many other pieces to this. We talked a little bit about education here and the way it works. This was a statistic that was given earlier. Mr. Delaney went through this very quickly.…
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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