The election of the canadian Prime Minister means, not only for that country, but our country as well. That is all tomorrow on the washington journal. See you then. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the president obama and a form of Prescription Drug abuse. Mac, john mccain and thornberry talk about defense spending. At noon, we will show you the first part of secretary of state Hillary Clinton p appearance before the house benghazi committee. On wednesday, president obama was in charleston, West Virginia for the Panel Description out of discussion on Prescription Drug abuse. Included in the panel were Law Enforcement and health silvioment officials, burwell, and the director of National Drug control policy. This is just over one hour. President obama thank you, everybody. Everybody, please have a seat. Have a seat. Thank you s
History, in a nut shell, people are working harder, they are working longer hours, and they are getting paid less in real dollars. This is not true for corporate executives. The ceoworker pay ratio was 21 in 1965. Today it is more than 300 to 1. I am fine with paying for Exceptional Results and investing in talent. I believe in that but i believe the gaps in practices should be transparent. I think the state Investment Board can help. I have asked the Investment Board to go further and exercise its Voting Authority to reduce the widening pay gap between ceos and their workers. [applause] i am encouraging the board to promote this policy with other states and instew institutional investors. Small steps like this can be the beginnings of bigger journeys. I started a different journey with my new executive order in Public Health and firearms. You know, more people in washington are dying from firearm fatalities than even from traffic accidents. We have a Public Health crisis. We need a Pu
Modest is unjustified costofliving adjustment adjustment, the first since 2008. Also made paying for college easier on family budgets. The only state in the United States to pass a to wishing cut this year for students. [applause] republicans had a great idea to have the tuition cut and i gladly give them credit. [applause] also gladly give democrats credit that we should cut tuition for every one including community and Technical Colleges. [applause] together we found a way. This is something everyone in the chamber can celebrate. We restore funding for one of our most precious public assets, our state parks. It was heartbreaking to even consider having to close some of these parks last year there is a family frolicking on the beach i remember my own childhood when mom and dad would throw was the back of the Station Wagon and taken sell for the day or the weekend just knowing this tradition will continue is extremely gratifying. One of the biggest performance it will continue to be fe
King and not really try and bring about what dr. Kings policies were all about. When i look over the last 18 months from eric gardner and ferguson to some of our leaders, i wanted some of the young people that were not about headlines but about working and sacrifice to be with us and they are my special guests this morning. Brandi and shanae, stand up, from ferguson, missouri. Reverend compton lee, stand up. And many of our Board Members, Lamel Mcmorris and others that are here, reverend michael walron, the pastor, first corinthian baptist church, the largest growing church in the country, certainly in new york, hes with us. The dean of the Civil Rights Movement, they call it civil rights establishment. Somebody said to me the other day i was in the civil rights establishment. I said ive been fighting getting the civil rights establishment all my life. You aint insulting me. I remember i wasnt even established, let alone in the establishment. Wade henderson is with us, the dean. Assist
Education, she could only hire herself out as a domestic. That is she went into suburban homes of white families and scrubbed their floors and cooked their meals and washed their clothes and cleaned their homes, things of that nature. My father probably had less than an eighth grade education, was a worked in a laundry. And then he died shortly after they married. I was three years old. Carl was a year old. And so this young bride then had to try to raise two boys as a domestic worker. She sent for her mother and brought her mother up from georgia so her mother could take care of carl and i. She had to spend the entire week working on the job spend the weekend with us and go back. During the week, her grandmother took care of us she found it difficult. Often told us she made 8 a day plus car fare, because at the time car fare was by street cars. She found it difficult to make a living on that amount of money, she also went on welfare. In addition to it in order to try to still make her