He said he would seek to create 10 million "high-tech, high-skill" jobs during the next decade.
In the past five years, Ranken Jordan has created roughly 200 permanent, high-skill jobs without cutting a single position, wage or benefit.
Yet the persistent shortage of home-grown technology workers to fill these high-skill, high-wage jobs does suggest that something is amiss in the labor market.
The goal, he said then, was to "make work pay" by preparing people for well-paid, high-skill jobs that would help them attain self-sufficiency.
It makes it very difficult to train them for high-skill jobs.
Tens of thousands of high-paying, high-skill American jobs have been threatened or eliminated.
Nike directly employs 15,500 people in high-wage, high-skill jobs around the world.
They moved in last year, keeping 70 high-wage, high-skill jobs in the area.
A mismatch between the American school system and industry, many people think, also impedes the creation of high-wage, high-skill jobs.
The Clinton Administration wants schools and industries to teach and train people better for high-wage, high-skill jobs.
