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Posted by Kori Schulman on July 26, 2011 at 1:26 PM EST

Ed. Note: This post will be updated with upcoming chances to join Office Hours and you can see what you missed during past sessions.

We're trying something new on our social networks -- starting this week, senior staff at the White House will hold regular "Office Hours" to answer your questions on a host of issues and topics.

Use the hashtag #WHChat on Twitter to ask administration officials your questions on President Obama’s speech and the ongoing deficit debate. White House staff will respond to your questions in real-time via Twitter during Office Hours. Check back for more chances to engage and follow @WhiteHouse for the latest updates.

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The Spark Needed to Compete for Manufacturing Jobs

Posted by Nikki Sutton on June 10, 2011 at 3:12 PM EST

On Wednesday, the President visited Northern Virginia Community College and emphasized the need to match community college curricula with the skill sets manufacturing companies seek to hire.

David Korelitz is currently benefiting from one of the programs President Obama spoke about, the General Motors Automotive Service Educational Program (GMASEP). The President shared David story:

"All across America, there are students like the ones that I’ve met here at NOVA, folks who are gaining skills, they’re learning a trade, they’re working hard and putting in the hours to move up the profession that they’ve chosen or to take a chance on a new line of work. Among the students I was meeting here, we saw some looked like 18-, 19-year-olds, but we also saw a couple of folks who were mid-career or even had retired and now were looking to go back to work.

So these are men and women like David Korelitz. David started at a car dealership as a apprentice. And he’ll tell you, he was at the low end of the totem pole. Then he entered GM -- the GM automotive program here at NOVA; started picking up new skills; led to better and more challenging work. He began to prove himself as a technician. And after he graduated he kept moving up. So now, David is hoping to work hard enough to earn a management position at the dealership where he was an apprentice just a few years ago.

And I want to quote David, because I think it captures what happens here at a place like NOVA. David said whatever he ends up doing, the automotive training program here was “the spark [he] needed to get [his] career started.” The spark he needed to get his career started."

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Infographic: The Resurgence of the American Automotive Industry

Posted by Katelyn Sabochik on June 3, 2011 at 12:04 PM EST

Today, President Obama will travel to Toledo, Ohio where he will visit the Chrysler Group’s Toledo Supplier Park – an operation that employs more than 1,700 workers producing Jeep Wranglers, Jeep Liberties, and Dodge Nitros. Just two years ago, Chrysler was filing for bankruptcy, and President Obama made the tough decision to support the restructuring of the company rather than allow it to fail – which would have cost tens of thousands of American jobs.

Today, Chrysler is repaying its government loans six years ahead of schedule and posted five consecutive quarters of operating profit. Earlier this week, the National Economic Council released a new report on the resurgence of the American automotive industry. Over the past two years, the auto industry has added 113,000 jobs - the fastest pace of job growth in the auto industry since 1998.

Check out this infographic that highlights some of the key successes in the auto industry since 2009.

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