These jobs require strong computer, math and science skills. At the Department of Transportation we are responding to this challenge through our Garrett A. Morgan Technology and Transportation Futures Program. We are partnering with elementary and middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities, and with the transportation industry to promote technology education and training. In the last three years we have reached out to nearly two million students. Transportation is clearly a vital connection to an improved quality of life in the 21 st century.
Transportation connects people to people.
It is truly the tie that binds. That is why this Administration has made investment in our transportation infrastructure a centerpiece of our strategy for economic growth. America has not yet met its obligations and its responsibilities to the poor. And one day we will have to stand before the God of history. Dr. King was a messenger from heaven.