This is Squawk Pod. I'm C. NBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on our podcast,

Get Into Work. Andrew Ross Sorkin sits down with the U.S. Labor Secretary

Marty Walsh and U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo.

Hey there, how are you?

Working together for jobs.

What's good for labor, which is more skills, better job, higher pay, is also good for business.

And so it's natural that commerce would partner with labor

because that will be better for both businesses and a stronger economy.

And President Biden's infrastructure plan.

At the end of the day, the President is talking about building back better

and that's about creating pathways in some middle class.

We can't go back to the way it was pre- Pandemic. We need to create better

opportunities. The questions, help wanted, but where?

The last two months we've seen the largest gained in hospitality and restaurants. So I'm hopeful as we continue to move forward

through the rest of the summer and fall,

we're going to see more people go back to work.

And maybe more importantly, will American workers

be prepared?

What I'm quite sure we will see is just an even greater

premium on digital skills, cloud computing skills,

data skills, tech skills.

We have an urgent need to make sure that everybody has access to those

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