Obama to Expand Job-Training Partnership

The United States must "step up our game" to compete, including ensuring U.S. students are well trained for jobs in demand, President Barack Obama said.

The nation has "a set of long-term competitiveness challenges," Obama said at a Tuesday news conference, a day before he was to announce a deal with the largest U.S. industrial trade association that promised to prepare 500,000 workers for what the White House said would be "cutting-edge manufacturing jobs."