President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address outlines many solutions for colleges around the country with new talks of partnerships between community colleges and high-skilled industries,

The president’s plan is to properly train 2 million workers with the skills they require that will lead them to a job.

According to usatoday.com, there are 13.2 million Americans unemployed, and 10 million more have taken part-time jobs or have given up searching for full-time work. There are about 3.2 million jobs open, with requirements less than a bachelor’s degree.

Obama plans to expand with manufacturing companies around America through the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

The federal government will work alongside the manufacturing institute through a program to promote a curriculum on advanced manufacturing skills certification system in community colleges in 30 states.

The program, known as the Manufacturing Skills Certification System, gives students the opportunity to earn manufacturing credentials.

To better aid this design, The manufacturing institute has already partnered with with leading manufacturing firms, the Gates Foundation, and the Lumina Foundation.

This plan also includes partnering with key players in education and training, including ACT, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the American Welding Society, the National Institute of Metalworking Skills and the Manufacturing Skills Standards Council.

Klaycie Tanedo, an undecided major, expresses that she believes these programs can benefit our school and people looking for work.

“It’s good to know that Obama is working with community colleges,” she said.

She said that It’s better to be trained here at school, it would be way easier to find a job instead of finding training elsewhere where the information and training is otherwise hard to find.

These plans can all be realistically reached, with proper funding in which the government has already taken steps towards with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, over $2 billion is available to eligible institutions over the next four years.

The main focus is to provide community colleges such as Cerritos to develop training, programs, skills, degrees and manufacturing credentials accepted in many high-skilled industries.