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there are more than 6 million openings. that is close to an all-time high. but there's a big skills gap that comes along with job seekers who are looking to get hired. as our diana olick found, sometimes workers need to learn before they can earn. that's our cover story today. >> reporter: inside an unassuming warehouse on the outskirts of denver 18 students are learning how to saw, drill, plaster and paint. they're learning how to build a house. 18 might not sound like a lot, but today's home builders are desperate for every last one of them. >> every single year the labor situation has basically gotten more people retiring, nobody replacing them. and as an industry ultimately we've just done a lousy job marketing our opportunities to young people. >> reporter: so oakwood homes, which is owned by berkshire hathaway, started the colorado home-building academy, a non-profit boot camp teaching basic construction skills. the classes are

though? >> we cannot afford not to do it. >> reporter: the academy hopes to graduate about 200 students from 11 boot camps this year and double that next year. the students range widely in age, race, and gender, from a millennial software salesman to a 48-year-old hairdresser. >> this is something i've always wanted to do. i've always wanted to learn how. and this is a great opportunity that came up. >> reporter: but it has been hard to fill these classes. >> i wish we had them banging down the door. we don't. when we're working with the young jer generation, that's tougher because as you said there's not a lot of people looking toward a job in the trades as their first career. we actively recruit every day. i could be having our recruiters out at job fairs. we go to schools and talk about career opportunities. we talk to local workforce offices all the time. we have a lot of community organizations. >> reporter: oakwood has already put over a million dollars into this and is working with other companies and organizations to grow the program. this is actually an oakwood-owned

factory which donated part of its space for the academy. literally putting potential employees right around the corner. and graduates like 25-year-old alexis montserrat are finding work fast. >> i felt confident after eight weeks. there's a lot of problem solving and creativity. >> reporter: her boss said the program is one answer to a huge problem. >> she has the basic training but we can provide the additional training depending what direction she wants to go with this. >> reporter: the academy may start offering specialty classes so graduates can command higher salaries sooner. but the message is clear. it is never too late to start. >> you're 48 years old. so -- >> it's >> reporter: for "on the money" i'm diana olick in denver. >> why is there such a mismatch between the skills that are needed and available workers? martha ross has studied that question. she's a fellow at the br instituti martha, thank for being here today. >> i'm glad to be here. thanks for having me. >> you studied the out of work

many workers on the sidelines of the labor market today? >> they're from all walks of life. anyone -- lots of people find themselves in this group, but they are disproportionately disadvantaged. so more than half of them have at most a high school diploma. and this is at a time when jobs are increasingly requiring a college education or an apprenticeship or some kind of post-secondary education. and only about a quarter of them have worked in the past year. >> we just listened to the package where we talked bay woman who's 47 and retraining herself. i guess it's a tricky time to figure out how to get retraining once you're 44 too. >> it is. it is. the median age of the out of work population is 45. and given that companies are having such trouble finding workers i think they need, as oakwood is, they need to broaden their recruitment pools and think differently about who can be a good worker. >> what about the government's role? how can job

that the government runs be improved to actually find people who have the skills that employers need? >> any good training program needs to meet the needs of the local labor market. and then they also need to support their participants. but what we need is a more focused effort to knit together the supply side of the labor market so the workers and the schools and tr organizations, and the demand side, the employers. >> again, a lot of the people who are having trouble right now don't have a traditional four-year college degree. is that necessary? are there fields that they can get into if you don't have one of those degrees? >> yes. a four-year degree is not necessary. what is important is that you have some kind of education beyond high school. >> what surprised you the most in your findings? >> there were

above the ages of 45. and the mismatch between that age and stage of life that people are typically in and, you know, the general advice, which is to go get more retraining. but it's not always the norm. and schools aren't always ready to -- to be welcoming to older people. >> martha, i want to thank you for your time today. >> thanks so much. one growing field where the jobs are is the specialty of animal health medicine. and it's not just pet doctors whose veterinary skills are needed. kate rogers has more from the university of pennsylvania's school of veterinary medicine in kenneth square, pa. >> reporter: demand for veterinary professionals is on the rise, driven by the booming pet care industry and by a growing world population that places a greater emphasis on food supply and safety. >> there's not a human health and an animal health. there's human, animal, and the environment. there really is only one health, an

>> reporter: experts say demand is outpacing supply, particularly in rural areas where veterinarians work with those who produce food. vet school graduates often have two jobs upon graduation. the application process is also highly competitive. >> in the united states we don't have enough slots to accommodate all the students. >> reporter: career carg for companion oa animals to running your own practi working for big pharma companies like zoetis that produce medicine for animals. >> the been an increase in demand for the expertise that veterinarians provide to society related to an increase in the size of the human population, an increase in affluence in developing countries as well as an overall increase in urbanization. >> reporter: but the experts say the industry has shifted somewhat as more people are moving into the specialty area which does pay more money but it also requires more

traditionally, vet techs make $32,000 a year on average while veterinarians can make about 88 thousands a year. and of course if you have your own practice where you do choose to specialize you can make well into the six figures. back over to you. >> kate, thank you so much. up next we're "on the money." it is open enrollment time at work when you select your health benefits for next year. we'll tell you what you need to know to help you make the right choices. and later, don't look now, but the holiday shopping season has already begun. we're going to take a look at some of the most popular toys for the holidays, give y for kie shopping for. right now, though, take a look at how the stock market . ♪ en this guy got a flat tire in the middle of the night, so he got home safe. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesn't have that. what?! you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™.

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new week "on the money." a big rebound in the week of october's unemployment numbers. the economy added 261,000 jobs. that's the most in a year, even though it wasn't as strong a number as some had been anticipating. the unemployment rate fell to 4.1% and average hourly earnings were unchanged. numbers for the previous month were depressed because of hurricanes harvey and irma. stocks had another record-setting week with the dow touching a new high in early trading on friday. the nasdaq and the s&p 500 climbing as well. the market closed higher on friday. as expected, the federal reserve kept interest rates steady at a historically low level, about 1.25%. at its meeting this week the fed also signaled that it is likely to raise rates at its next meeting in december. americans are spending more and saving less. the savings rate fell to a ten-year low of 3.1% in september. that's down from a recent peak of 6.3% in october of 2015. low unemployment and rising that trend. likely contributing

deductibles, co-pays. now is the time of year that you have to make your health plan choices at work. even study found out about half understand their benefits. julie thicke is vice president of the international foundation of employee benefit plans. that's the group that did the survey and julie, thanks for being with us today. >> well, thanks, becky, for inviting me. >> you would think this would be a happy time of the year, we get to see what kind of benefits we qualify. but how come choosing benefits is such a daunting, confusing and even stressful event for so many people? >> well, you said it. it is stressful. a large part of that is because it's not something that's all that easy. it's always very complicated. and it's something that most employees only deal with on a once a year basis kind of on a drive-by. so it's hard to understand all the choices that are open to you. and what you choose does make a difference. >> one of the statistics you pulled up, 82% of us spend less than an hour trying to figur

out what we're going to qualify for in benefits. why is that? >> right. right. well, partly maybe because it's not very interesting to us. it's confusing. we know that our employees don't necessarily always want to read everything that we give them. it's complicated. sometimes we use jargon and we shouldn't. but we do. so it's not a fun task to do on a weekend. >> you know, a lot of times it doesn't seem like there's that much difference between what's being offered this year and what was offered the year before. is that unusual? >> no, that's pretty typical. you really should take a look and see what might have changed in the plan that you're looking at and see if it still covers everything you need. see if anything has changed in your life that you would need to make a different choice. >> what's the biggest mistake we make that we should maybe be able to avoid? >> well, i think the biggest mistake is going for the plan that's the cheapest. you look at the premium

cheapest, i'm just going to sign up for it. but what you should really do is take into consideration things like you mentioned early on, deductibles and co-pays. co-insurance and what your out of pocket might be when you're finished. t planned for next year.have you are you going to have a baby? do you know if you're going to have surgery? do you know if your son's going to need braces? you should take all of that into consideration when you pick. >> it's pretty hard to try to figure out if you don't have one of those events that you know, that you jus how money you should put into either a flexible spending accoh spending account. any tips for what a baseline should be if you don't have any big events coming up? >> well, then what you should do is look at what you spent this year. if you don't have anything specific next year, look and see what you spent this year and kind of plan accordingly. >> all right. julie, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. thanks very much. up next, we're "on the money." from bargain buys to spending splurges.

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in and december. that's up about 3 1/2% above last year. so what can parents expect to see at the top of every kid's wish list? joining us right now is liz macarello. she's the editor in chief of "parents" magazine. great to see you. >> happy christmas. >> all right. getting into this entire thing. how did "parents" magazine come up with this list? >> we test our toys. over of the 500 of the toys. with 50 real-life toy-testing kids. so we watch them and find out which ones really delight the little ones. >> i can see already, if you're looking for something that the kids are going to love and that is not going to break your wallet, what have you got? >> well, for only $15 you get -- bn on a couple of ngerl the hot toy lists already. these guys open and close their eyes. they hang and jingle. if you have two together and you clap, they sing together. >> no way.

two retailers have unique versions. so if you go to walmart, they have the sloth and the unicorn is at toys "r" us. >> which is a reason to make people actually come back into the brick and mortar stores. you need your exclusive toys. if you are willing to spend slightly more -- oh, my gosh, this one's cute. i'm not getting this out of my hand. >> i know. we also have play dirt in a job which has this kinetic sand that looks like dirt. this is only $13. >> you're a sucker, you pay $13 for dirt? >> for dirt. yeah. but it's not dirt you have to clean up. it's like dough dirt. and if you have a little one who likes to sort of dig in there he can have fun with that. >> that feels nice. >> isn't that fun? >> i'm making a little bit of a mess. all right. i get it. and it's not real dirt. so you can bring it in the house. >> >> these are two lower end of the spectrum. these are higher. >> this is so much fun. our toy testers loved this ice cream cart that has a magic ice cream scooper. and what happens is this works on development and memorization and sequencing. the magic ice cream

the child can take a kid's order and make a sundae with sprinkles and whipped cream and it's really, really fun. we found the kids played with this for hours. >> wow. okay. so if you want a little free time this is where to go. >> yeah. >> one of the had the movies this year was all-around "minute ynz." that was a big hit in my house. >> we have a little mini minion rc. it's a balancing robot. he speaks minion language. >> just like my son. >> there's a turbo dave app which has over 140 sound effects house and he can get under your foot. you can have all sorts of tripping over him. look how cute they are. >> i remember hatchimals from last year. it turned out to be the hot surprise toy people weren't anti slightly different version. >> this is hatchimal's surprise. this year they're twins. you hatch two of them. one comes out underneath the next. this is $70. but the technology's incredible.

course of days and weeks, they develop like real children do. they start to talk to each other. they go from babbling to talking to eating. so you can follow the directions on the little cart and really grow your hatchimal. >> that one's going to be really hard to find the closer we get to the holidays i think. >> yeah, it's is fun. >> everywhere i look this year are unicorns. that's what i dressed my daughter as for halloween. this is maybe the ultimate unic plush ride-on. we have $150 this is going to costs you. but it is so sweet. it is super, super soft. it goes 2.5 miles an hour. >> it actually drives. >> and it actually drives. and you have a lightup horn, and it plays magical unicorn music. who doesn't want magical unicorn music? in their house. that's so sweet. and they love it because it's unicorn but it's also riding and there's lights and sounds. total delight. >> all right. so these are the exciting things already. we love it. thank you so much for joining us, liz.

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♪ here are the stories coming up that may impact your money this week. if you're like me you may be polishing off a few extra nachos on monday. we've got a goodexcuse. it is national nachos day. on monday president trump continues his trip to asia and will be in seoul, south korea. tuesday is election day. there are six house seats, one senate seat, and two gubernatorial seats that are up for grabs. it's also the fourth anniversary of the twitter ipo. if you invested $100 in this company on that day and waited all this time, well, right now you'd only have about 50 bucks. and long-time favorite of parents and children alike, "sesame street" made its debut on this date back in 1969. when you think of kate hudson, you think of hol these days kate is taking on a new role, that's one of entrepreneur. she's the co-founder of the activewear company fablettics. we asked her who she looks to for business advice and why she started the company. >> i wanted to get into

longer hours than i like. as single mama. i felt like if there's something i want to be talking about that i'm really passionat purpose behind it is important for me to get out there? to me it's just healthy lifestyle. >> you're the name. you're the face. you're in the commercials. but you're really hands-on. do you know things like what's selling really well and what's not selling well? are you kind of checking numbers on a daily basis and seeing those things? >> yeah. i wouldn't say daily basis, but definitely monthly. what is the benefit of being a digitally native company? one of the benefits of that is having the technology to have the data to create a more seamless operation. just because retail is taking -- is hurting right now. >> yeah. very tough time. >> we're having a lot of success in retail. and it's because we have the data to know how to create the retail experience. >> is there anybody that you turn to for advice? any of your friends? any of your family memb

to go to to talk about a lot of different things when it comes to busines >> i saw something that kurt recently talked about in an interview where they asked him what he was proud about with you. and it ran the gamut. but he also loved what you're doing with this company. on your own list of your accomplishments, what you've done, how does it kind of rate? >> i think it's pretty up there. if there's anything to be the most proud of inside of the work that i've done in my life, it's building a community for women to feel supported. and to go back to my dad, kurt always said he had very high expectations of me. but the truth is that those expectations that he had somehow drove me i think to be a very ambitious person. it's not necessarily about financial successes as much as it is about finishing something. i feel like until the day you die you always want to make your parents proud no matter where they are, right? >> i just have a

that's happened. has it turned the town on its head? >> the fear of coming forward with something like that is enormous for a woman because it could mean their career. it could mean everything they've ever worked hard for. harvey's not the only one, unfortunately, and it's just created a climate for i think real change. >> my thanks to kate hudson. and by the way, if you were wondering, kate has short hair these days because she shaved her head for her next movie role. she said it's growing back very quickly, though. that is the show for today. i'm becky quick. and thank you so much for joining us. next week we go from nba superstar to entrepreneur. we'll be meeting kobe bryant and find out all about his new business. each week keep it right here. we're "on the money." have a great one, and we'll see

ralphcandidate for governor,rtham, and i sponsored is ad. they're studying for 21st century jobs., but ed gillespie supports donald trump's plan to take money out of virginia public schools and give it to private schools. as a washington dc lobbyist, ed gillespie worked for lenders trying to keep student loan rates high.

lan to cut taxes for the wealthy could cut virginia school funding, too. ed doesn't stand for education. good morning, america. this morning, touchdown in tokyo. president trump arriving for the start of his 13-day asia trip. with a message of strength. >> we dominate the sky. we dominate the sea. we dominate the land and space. >> teeing up an ambitious agenda. what he hopes to accomplish. what our new poll says about his approval rating and the loyalty of his base. spilling secrets. >> i'm with her. >> the tell-all new book by dnc interim chair donna brazile. how she reportedly considered removing clinton from the ticket after her collapse at the 9/11 memorial.