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Help Wanted: Retraining America

Season 3 Episode 18 | 25m 16s

Even as unemployment remains stubbornly high, millions of jobs remain unfilled because many workers do not have the necessary training to fill them. This week we look at The National STEM Consortium – a program designed to target this type of structural unemployment by improving the scientific, technical and mathematical know-how of American workers. Also, Seth Harris, Secretary of Labor.

Aired: 05/01/13
Extras
A look at Massachusetts, the only state that requires health insurance.
For those crossing the border illegally, it is now more deadly than ever before.
A girl's painful search for information about her father, lost in the Arizona desert.
20 years before Sandy Hook, a student went on a shooting rampage in Massachusetts.
The National STEM Consortium improves scientific, technical and mathematical skills.
Interview with Acting Secretary of Labor Seth Harris.
Animated map of STEM training programs by type.
A roundtable examines the history of the Second Amendment and how it shapes debate today.
An urban garden destroyed by Superstorm Sandy gets a second chance.
A program designed to help low-income, mostly African-American children save for college.
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A look at Massachusetts, the only state that requires health insurance.
For those crossing the border illegally, it is now more deadly than ever before.
A roundtable examines the history of the Second Amendment and how it shapes debate today.
A program designed to help low-income, mostly African-American children save for college.
How have changes in manufacturing impacted the average worker in Findlay, Ohio?
How behavioral economics is being utilized to encourage low-income workers to save.
A round table discussion on economic inequality, mobility, debt, and economic health.
Dr. Emily Senay examines the FDA’s medical device review process.
The debate over immigration reform -- an inside look at the lives of Latino farm workers.
Twenty years later: The continuing impact of a school shooting on a small town.