the real question for voters is going to be, what is the choice on the other side? this week we learned that governor romney s tax plan would raise taxes for the wealthy and, would cut taxes for the wealthy, a windfall for the wealthy and raise taxes by $2,000 on the middle class. kelly: that is david axelrod and joining me is the anchor of fox news sunday, chris wallace, and chris, your conversation with david axelrod. what does it focus on? jobs? the economy? the president s campaign strategy? yes, all of those. good morning, kelly. kelly: good morning. we started, of course with the latest jobs numbers that came out, on friday, for july. which indicate, yes, the economy created 163,000 jobs but the unemployment rate went up to 8.3% and the question is given his roar, the fact that there are 25 million people who either don t have jobs, have given up looking for jobs or are working fewer hours than they would
only a few months or a year. i know, i was on assistance. what they don t tell you is that there s at least one working adult in 48% of households with children on food stamps. only 13% don t have jobs. in a time of national economic crisis, when so many people are struggling to find a job, the republicans are calling the country weak. americans dependent and repeatedly criticizing millions for their work ethic. let s bring in jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view. let s get to the point, jonathan, does welfare make americans dependent? first of all, we don t have welfare anymore. we got rid of welfare in 1996 with welfare reform. up to that point, there was an argument that was a pretty persuasive one that aid to families with dependent children, afdc did create some dependency, but then we moved under the clinton administration to a welfare to work program,
don t tell you is 65% of recipients take assistance for only a few months or a year. i know, i was on assistance. what they don t tell you is that there s at least one working adult in 48% of households with children on food stamps. only 13% don t have jobs. in a time of national economic crisis, when so many people are struggling to find a job, the republicans are calling the country weak. americans dependent and repeatedly criticizing millions for their work ethic. let s bring in jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view. let s get to the point, jonathan, does welfare make americans dependent? first of all, we don t have welfare anymore. we got rid of welfare in 1996 with welfare reform. up to that point, there was an argument that was a pretty persuasive one that aid to families with dependent children, afdc did create some dependency, but then we moved under the clinton administration
65% of recipients take assistance for only a few months or a year. i know. i was on assistance. what they don t tell you is that there s at least one working adult in 48% of households with children on food stamps. only 13% don t have jobs. at a time of national economic chris, when so many people are struggling to find a job, republicans are calling the country weak. americans dependent, and repeatedly criticizing millions for their work ethic. let s bring in jonathan alter, msnbc political analyst and columnist for bloomberg view. let me get right to the point, jonathan. does welfare make americans dependent? well, first of all, we don t have welfare anymore. we got rid of welfare in 1996 with welfare reform. up to that point there was an argument that was a pretty persuasive one that aid to families with dependent children, afdc, did create some dependency, but then we moved under the clinton administration
bullying students. now she s starring in a public service announcement aimed at helping kids and their parents deal with the rising cost of college, part of a new campaign called don t major in debt. actress, altruist, jane lynch joins us now. we have some of the sound from that new psa and it is a great psa and a really important issue. in fact, student loan is the biggest source of american debt after mortgages and yet it is totally underdiscussed. yeah. how did you come to this issue? well, they asked me. i have personal experience in that i have nieces and nephews who, some who are still in college and getting phone calls to pay on some of these loans because they took really bad loans, and i have a niece and nephew out of college who don t have jobs and have to pay on these student loans and one of them has a loan that will not allow them to defer. so college finance center.org which is launching today is a