Former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Friday on ABC that a Biden White House should tell folks laid off from retail stores like JC Penney to learn to code.
“There’s going to be people like at JC Penney and other retail, those jobs are not coming back,” Emanuel said. “Give them the tools, six months, you’re going to become a computer coder, we’ll pay for it and you’ll get millions of people to sign up for it.”
“They are not going back to parts of the retail economy and we need to give them a lifeline to what’s the next chapter.”
