i was in the bus tour. started off in grand rapids, michigan. met some awesome people. they are fantastic. constantly giving me stuff. that s a terrible picture and i was in grand rapids and ended up in nashville, tennessee. people gave a lot of gifts to the five. a lot of shirts and a lot of stuff for bob and eric and did i get any anything for jasper? nothing for jasper. this is any favorite thing. this is a drawing the five. it s dana. it s a t rex. bob is a steg asawrs. kg is a brack yo sawrs. i m like an iguana. i like it that i am bigger than you. and i m a vegetable taran. and you are also a rhino.
incentive, really, for decreasing unemployment? that s how i feel about it. well, erin, bob and eric, thank you and good luck. thank you. hope you didn t blink watching the season finale of alpha house or you might have missed some special cameos. that s anthony weiner as himself and chris jansing. we ll talk to three congresswomen who live together on capitol hill. you re watching msnbc. [ male announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role throughout our lives. one a day men s 50+ is a complete multivitamin designed for men s health concerns as we age. with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. one a day men s 50+.
62:8%, the lowest number since 1978. nearly 350,000 people left the workforce in december. for many, it remains a dream. eric holds a masters degree in library science. i m also joined by bob herbert, a distinguished senior fellow at the public policy organization. and erin courier joins us as well. the pew trust recently completed a series of studies saying that most americans never managed to climb the elusive ladder. quhi do some manage to make it while others do not? our research shows there are a lot of factorings at work here. one of the key drivers of mobility from the bottom is a postsecondary education. americans able to get that
enough for people to move up the income ladder. eric, tell us your story. you re highly educated. you have a postgraduate degree. you have expertise and training. tell us about the experience you re having. well, to begin with, i worked for 16 years in the title insurance industry before the real estate market collapsed. so from that point on, i d gotten my degree. i used it as an opportunity to create a new career, basically in records management. and what i did is i basically went back into the job market, i thought i had enough skills because i was working kind of as a records manager in the current job. but it was very difficult because my background was in real estate. and therefore a lot of it was, well, okay, we want experience but in this specific thing.
what was wrong with the top of that lead? that was a lot of crap. because the rich people got their tax breaks they finally got them put back in. rich people were getting big tax breaks. let me ask you this question. they re not is what you re trying to say? they took the tax breaks away. how do you explain the top 1% is outpacing by seven times how many years during obama s term did they have exactly what this is? believe it or not, president obama is wrong. he has widened the income gap but in a good way, bob. in a good way. one percentage going up 34% and 99% going up 4% and that s a good thing. incoming equality is a misnomer. if the rising tide is raising all boats that s a great thing. how can you say in 15 years the top 1% increase in income