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Renard Johnson: “A welder. If I would have known what a welder makes, I…”

Featuring: Renard Johnson, Mayor of El Paso | Texas

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Mayor Renard Johnson on Entrepreneurship, Business Growth & Fixing Broken Government

Published | Video Starts at 1:02:32

But we have to go into the schools, Preston, with this to make sure that we can get them super, super stoked about going into these industries. A welder. If I would have known what a welder makes, I probably wouldn't be sitting here right now. The amount of money they can make. These are trades that we need to really educate people on because not everyone needs to go to college. Okay. (1:02:32–1:02:38)

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