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ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning.eart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. ♪ >>> there's 8.3% unemployment and the federal reserve chairman says the jobs market is far from normal. then why do companies claim they can't find workers who can do the jobs they need? glen fenter is the president of mid center community college. his school is one of the many schools that makes sure the workers have the skills companies need. glen, nice to see you this morning. you work with fedex to get people trained in the kinds of jobs that aviation need. these are good jobs. the fedex chairman and founder fred smith told me he thinks community colleges are the answer. >> it's just a mishmash, and i think we got to this point where everybody had to go to college and that was sort of the theme there for a long time, and a lot of kids probably shouldn't go to college. they should go to community college and get a marketable skill that and that's what you do. you're trying to give them a mark itable skl

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ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning.heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. ♪ >>> with refinalitily seeing a bottom in the housing market? finally? the news, it's getting interesting, at least. a full decade of home prices has been wiped away. the s&p 500 case shiller home price index fell 3.8% in the last quarter. but those low prices are sparking more home sales. existing home sales rose 4.3% in january. so are record low mortgage rates and those falling prices, are they going to spark a recovery in housing? let's get to the bottom of it, literally. mike, host of "real estate intervention" nice to see you. >> always great to see you, christine. especially when i'm going to say something good about the housing market. >> is it? >> i think what everybody wants to know, is it the right time to buy? absolutely. i can tell we will never see mortgage money as cheap as we're seeing it right now. i think that whether you're an investor or you're buying a principal residence to live in, i

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ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning.art of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. ♪ >>> green shoots. have you heard that phrase? imagine the forest interior after a wildfire. eventually those little seeds start to sprout again. that's what's happening in the american economy. it's now cheaper to buy a house than to rent one, i'm not kidding. cheaper to buy it. i guess if you've got the money in the bank, et cetera, et cetera. existing home sales are staeblizing. down 0.9%, up from a year ago. that's good years ago. richard florida is author of "the great reset." are we seeing that? >> it's at or near its bottom. in certain markets it may overshoot a little. but as you said, that price-to-rent ratio, the folks -- really great economists, we published that in our sites in atlantic cities. it showed that 98 of the 100 markets, it's cheaper to buy than rent. in places like detroit and the rust belt cities, it's like 3.7 dlp. when the indices is 20%, that's when you should rent. so in those co

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