over reparations for slavery. and the democrats running for president are quickly learning voters want to know exactly where they stand on the issue. vermont senator bernie sanders, who in 2016 said he did not support reparations, had a much different answer during last night s cnn town hall. part of the legacy of slavery and jim crow in the u.s. is the legacy of income inequality in the u.s. what is your position on reparations to the descendants of slaves? well, as i just indicated, there are massive disparities that must be addressed. there is legislation that i like, introduced by congressman jim clyburn. it s called the 10-20-30 legislation. which focuses federal resources in a very significant way on distressed communities, communities that have high levels of poverty. so what is your position specifically on reparations? i ask the question because elizabeth warren, julianne castro, they ve indicated they want what do they mean? i m not sure that anyone s very
adoption rate in those homes when it comes to broadband. so if we are really serious about the african-american community closing the education gap, closing the income gap, then we have got to carry programs into these rural communities. i ve been fighting for it ever since i ve been here. if you look in the recovery act, you will see that i ve inserted a formula in that act called 10-20-30. it was put into four parts of the ag bill that we had. sir, let me ask you this, because donald trump has met with all these african-american people so they can celebrate african-american history month. he billed this as a listening session. did he reach out to you at all to attend this meeting? oh, no, i don t see any african-americans there who are in government. armstrong williams i know very
well reverend sharpton we had a very constructive dialogue today with secretary clinton. she scheduled 30 minutes but it ended up being an hour meeting. we started with the whole question of poverty. 45 million people in this country live in poverty and more than 10 million of those are african-americans. one out of four black families are living in poverty. one out of three black children live in poverty so we had to begin this conversation today talking about persistent poverty and we were very pleased with the response of secretary clinton. she had been prepared for this question and she knew that it was coming and we were very pleased with the response that she gave. what did she say she intended to do? what was her proposal? the congressional black caucus indicates a 10/20/30 program whereby we want to target federal resources in those communities that have poverty rates in excess of 20% that has persisted for more than 30 years and we want to redirect federal dollars into t
has prevented african americans from getting jobs. and certainly can t discount the everything from an uneven criminal justice system that targets black men and other sort of culture problems that lie outside of the character of black men. and i we are inviting congressman ryan to challenge his own assumptions about the character of black men. let s have a job s program like the 10-20-30 jobs program that was articulated an designed that would provide real opportunities to poor men and women living in urban and rural areas. democrats and republicans all over the country. yeah. let me go back to this town hall because here s more of the exchange related to the gop s
see some targeting of these recovery measures by census tracks, where people have been traditionally unemployed, let s target resources into these communities and you will find that there is a difference if your in appalachia than if you were in to, say, the black belt of mississippi, alabama and parts of south carolina. you have specific proposals. you call one of them 10-20-30. tell us what that is. what that is we should direct 10% of the resources into this area, in those areas where 20% or more of the population has been locked beneath the poverty level for the last 30 years. 10-20-30. we think if you were to do that, then you would look at appalachia, where i ve been, looking into south dakota where native americans are, look into