2024 CNN Town Hall: on Jobs

Chris Christie: We have to show people that we value vocational training

Nikki Haley: Retrain workers for post-AI, like when textiles went abroad

HALEY: When you create a platform like that, it always creates more jobs along the way. Our goal should be, how do we make sure those people have the skills to fit those new jobs? You know, when I came in [as Governor], we had 11% unemployment. All of the jobs in South Carolina had been in the textile industry. And when the textiles went overseas, so went our jobs. And so we started to recruit. And by the time I left, we were building planes with Boeing, more BMWs than any place in the world. We brought in Mercedes-Benz, five international tire companies. But our South Carolinians knew how to make textiles. We went and got them reskilled so that they could do the new jobs. That's the key is, don't leave anybody hanging. Anybody that has had a job that they're watching it go away by artificial intelligence, let's make sure they have the ability to get trained for new jobs that are coming in.