We said, in the five or six fields where we are short workers, what can we do to have an immediate catalyst to get more people to pursue careers and like health care? And We said, let's pick up the full cost of a community college education. Everything blocks fees, everything. And you know what? We did that just starting this summer, we already have 16,000 more students going into our public community colleges here and across the state than we would have had. (23:09–23:14)
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