Se, and guess what happened . Labor force increased over the past year and we have not taken credit for that at all. Charter schools we owned the Charter Schools revolution. We were the 51st state to pass on in maryland. The Teachers Union and the entrenched bureaucracy in a completely not completely, but many schools by any measure dysfunction. Mainly minority kids, brown and black kids being deprived as Constitutional Rights and as lawyers many to Pay Attention to this. We have taken this issue and brought this revolution around the country and we are allowing poor kids, regardless of their color, to punch their ticket the way our tickets were punched. Many of us from poor workingclass backgrounds and we got a break. And we should be in the business of giving breaks. We should be in the business of all of the above when it comes to dysfunctional schools. I went around the state of maryland at the time and said, you know what . We can talk about all these niceties, but the fact of it
Counterparts. You may have seen this week that the Starbucks Coffee Company Announced a new initiative called race together. In encourages employees to engage in conversations about raise with people buying coffee. You may think this is a good approach, or you may disagree with it. For the first 45 minutes, we want to discuss what this means for Race Relations. If you live in the eastern are central time zone, 202 7488000 is the number four calling in. 202 7488001 if you live in the amount no pacific zone. If you want to post on twitter journal cspan. Org. On facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Or you can send us an email, journal cspan. Org. If you go to the companys website, it you can read the press release and why they are doing it. Race together is what employees have been voluntarily writing on cups this week. If you got a copy of a copy of usa today there was a pullout on Race Relations. It also has a picture of that ceo of starbucks as he was talking to members of his company about
And take questions. This is about an hour. Dave thank you for coming. Our guests are jeff zients and brian deese. Zients is in maryland native graduated with honors from duke university. He joined been consulting and worked for bain consulting. Our guest is a father of four and has undertaken a series of challenging government roles including serving as chief performance officer and heading the offer dubbed tech s urge. Brian deese spent time at the center for American Progress and worked on the Obama Campaign and the transition team. At the age of 31 his first assignment after joining the white house staff was to help restructure general motors. And went on to serve as Deputy Director of the National Economic council and management and budget. So what for biography, on to the mechanics. No live blogging or tweeting or filing while the breakfast is underway to give us time to listen to what the guests are saying. To help you resist the sulfate urge we will email pictures to the reporte
Monumental mess. Bush tax cuts and the war. And when obama got in office, he had this to the economy by creating he had to pick up the loss of revenue from the loss of millions of jobs. I think about ronald reagan, i think about the current republican governors, i think at all things. I think about the idea that income inequality grew three under republican governors. That top 1 has gained all the wealth. In the bottom 99 of americans have suffered tremendous laws loss under these policies that were put upon us by reagan and thatcher. Also, the fact that republicans denied reality of climate change. It is detrimental to the public. Then there is the war. And the poor is also a major concern of mine. But the most important thing is when you do your homework, i find out the same thing to be true. One of those things that is true is the fact that when you look at what what part produces the most jobs, i find that democratic president s produce more jobs than republican president. Host we
Have benefited from this kind of rich support, not just in terms of the law and the ability to arrive and be eligible for the green card a year into your arrival, and five years later citizenship, but all the support, right, support to help you pick up yourself and figure out the way that this country works. I dont think thats extended to other groups unless of course they are designated as refugees. Correct me if i am wrong. Right . And then in terms of people, you know, leaving their countries to emigrate, no matter where they are going, no matter where theyre headed. I want to remind us that no one takes this kind of decision lightly. Youre not going on a cruise when you jump into a raft and decide youre going to come to the United States. Its not a cruise. Right . The ship is barely seaworthy, i call it a ship, maybe my vocabulary is escaping me for a minute, but the thing that they travel in is not seaworthy generally. We do not know the number of people who have drowned at sea. W