Bush promotes job training at N.C., Ark. schools.(around the nation)

President Bush campaigned at community colleges in North Carolina and Arkansas earlier this month, talking up his job-training plan and promising that jobs growth is on the horizon.

In North Carolina, Bush stopped at Central Piedmont Community College to propose doubling the number of Americans who receive job-training help from the federal government but without additional funding. The initiative contains no new federal spending with a budget deficit expected to approach $500 billion this year. Instead, it relies on $250 million Bush proposed spending earlier this year and forcing state and local governments to spend less on "administrative expenses."

Bush's North Carolina visit was part of a wider election-year bid to help workers adapt to the changing economy and marked Ins last planned personal appearance in the …