Latino renters say they're being priced out of units and homes as legislators try to rein in Wall Street-backed firms who are buying more housing stock.
today, the administration has announced that ten of the most expensive prescription drugs have been chosen for price negotiation with the big pharmaceutical manufacturers. half those chosen are medications to prevent blood clots and treat diabetes. they are currently being prescribed for millions of people on medicare. the others on the list are used to treat heart trouble, autoimmune disease, and cancer. we are told the lower, negotiated prices will be introduced in early 2026. an important issue for a lot of americans? an important issue for a lot of americans? , . ., , ., americans? yes, particularly now that we have americans? yes, particularly now that we have a americans? yes, particularly now that we have a lot americans? yes, particularly now that we have a lot of americans? yes, particularly now that we have a lot of americans l that we have a lot of americans spending more money on almost everything talking about gas prices being higher, the interest rates keep going
gasoline, because the prices of gasoline and fuel controls the price of everything. else it controls the price of hamburger because hamburger is moved three and four times from one point to the other, it keeps driving the price up. look at the interest rates now. people are going to have a hard time buying houses. people right now that i talked to, they are interested in good schools for the kids, they re interested in lower prices, close to the border, secure national defense, most people that i talked to never talk to me about abortion, religion, i try to avoid those subjects because everybody has an opinion. interesting about that, when you just outlined the things that you re most concerned about i couldn t help but think that these are all the topics that are not being discussed or heard by the majority of the other rnc hopefuls in the race, because there is so much conversation around what is
the news coverage was not encouraging. - student loan debt in this country is now bigger than credit card debt. - and what does it do? it not only hurts these students. that s our number one concern. it kills the whole economy. - they re delaying having kids. they re delaying getting married. they re delaying buying houses. - i think it s a crisis right now for families and student borrowers. - it wasn t just the borrowers. economists and pundits across the political spectrum were warning this could have drastic effects on our economy. - for that is the student loan bubble. - yeah, even him. - down to $1.5 trillion and counting. - crushing student debt. - was there a story here? to find out, i did what any good journalist would. i googled it in the middle of the night. every opinion column, every quote in a news story, all came down to the same one expert, alan collinge one of the nation s foremost experts on student debt. this guy was everywhere. except an easy-to-visit location. [li
have the cafeteria worker in a hospital helping to pay the medical loans of the doctors and nurses working there or janitor in school paying off the graduate school loans of well to do parents. it was a regressive plan that hurts working class and helps the elite and it would have been inflationary for the democrats, the worst thing they could have done going into the november election. they secretly should be happen even though they ll attack it. gillian: the point on who this policy would have helped. the administration said that s not true. vast majority of loan forgive east for students with pell grants and come from the lowest income strata in the united states. people who were already living in poverty and this gave them a leg up. moving forward from higher education they have a better chance to join in the american economy by buying houses and so on and so forth. what do you say to that? that s incorrect.