host: in "the new york times" by peter goodman,fter job training, still scrambling for a job. talk about the record 6.8 million americans who have been officially jobless for six months or longer. the profile of one gentleman who was trying to find a job in new york, in brooklyn recently applied for welfare benefits because it cannot find the job. he said the training was fruitless -- no one is hiring. mr. goodm reports that 100,000 americans have enrolled in the programs only to remain out of work. it intensified skepticism as training for a cure for unemployment. what advice you have four folks thinking about going into some of the job-training programs or taking on debt to go to college for some work force prepared as trning. guest: i think people uncovering that should really think carefully about it because it is something that haunts you years after you are placed in new job. but i think the article, if you were to read into it, it clearly says we are seeing improvement in how we are focusing job- training on jobs in demand. his story is tragic. we don't want anyone to g

host: in "the new york times" by peter goodman, after job training, still scrambling for a job. talk about the record 6.8 million americans who have been officially jobless for six months or longer. the profile of one gentleman who was trying to find a job in new york, in brooklyn recently applied for welfare benefits because it cannot find the job. he said the training was fruitless -- no one is hiring. mr. goodman reports that 100,000 americans have enrolled in the programs only to remain out of work. it intensified skepticism as training for a cure for unemployment. what advice you have four folks thinking about going into some of the job-training programs or taking on debt to go to college for some work force prepared as training. guest: i think people uncovering that should really think carefully about it because it is something that haunts you years after you are placed in a new job. but i think the article, if you were to read into it, it clearly says we are seeing improvement in how we are focusing job- training on jobs in demand. his story is tragic. we don't want anyon

peter goodman writes that more than the environmental catastrophe, the disaster has become a festeringeminder of the disarray afflicting so many areas of the national life. we're continuing our discussion about how president obama can rebound, based on a section of "the new york times." republicans, carol, go ahead. caller: i think the president is doing a very good job. he had to pick up and try to resolve what he walked into. instead of us complain, we need to go to the table and work together. once the issue is resolved, we know what the true issue is. we look at him and we can see, but look at all the gray hair he has gotten since having been in office. anyone can sit on the sidelines and talked. host: what is the true issue? guest: that he is an african- american young man. i have been here all my life and have gone through these issues myself. but i'm looking to the hills for my strength, and knows he is doing the same. i believe he will make it, and make it to a second term. host: hold on. in a book with the washington post" and the opposition, sophia has a piece entitled "it is