When talking about their plan to deal with job losses due to outsourcing overseas by US companies, Bush said he has policies to continue to grow the economy and create jobs and would help those who lose jobs to get an education.

"Perhaps the best way to keep jobs here in America and to keep this economy growing is to make sure our education system works," Bush said. "Education is how to help the person who's lost a job."

Kerry said Bush switched away from the issue over jobs by talking about education principally. "The fact is that he's cut job training money .. They've wound up not even extending unemployment benefits and not even extending health care to those people who are unemployed," Kerry said.

While acknowledging that outsourcing is inevitable, Kerry said the president should bear responsibility for the things the president could do that has an impact on jobs.

"I will make the playing field as fair as possible," Kerry said."I don't want American workers subsidizing the loss of their own job, and when I'm president we're going to shut that loophole in a nanosecond."

Kerry noted that Bush is the first president in 72 years who has seen net job losses on his watch. The senator said more than 1.6 million jobs have lost during the four years of Bush's office.