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Ro Khanna: “We're going to have these tech institutes so people can…”

Featuring: Ro Khanna, Democratic | U.S. House California, 17th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 28:10

Third, we're going to have trade schools, a thousand new trade schools across America. That's such a small investment, from 1.7 billion to 5 billion. And we would have construction jobs, trade jobs. Fourth, We're going to have these tech institutes so people can actually do some of the new technology jobs, not just maintain a data center, actually six figure jobs, about 10 million of them. And fifth, we're going to have capital. So it's not sitting all in my district but capital for Main street and small businesses. I want an economic development strategy for America. (28:10–28:20)

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Asserts that tech institutes will create about 10 million six-figure jobs.

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