President Obama wants to create a Universal Displaced Worker Program to provide individuals with high-quality job-search assistance and access to critical skills training for high-growth industries.

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In Flint, a town with double-digit employment, displaced auto worker Jonathan Turbush(ph) led off a discussion on the economy.

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Where a factory worker is displaced, they may have to relocate (i.e. be on their bike, as Lord Tebbit once said in the UK), or seek retraining.

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In time, government displaced commodities, and today one worker in six works for the federal bureaucracy.

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