welcome back to the fastest seven minutes in news. morning, noon or night. three stimulating stories. mark cuban made some remark aab statements about his own racism. stephen smith took those remarks and adds his oppose passion and flavor. i don t care who in the black community disagrees with me. i do understand that to some degree there s a level of racism that we all have to overcome. that doesn t mean that every single issue is race-related. sometimes it is about how you how you represent yourself. when we talk about the american dream, you know who i think about? myself. grew up poor. the level of education that i had was a public school system. i ultimately graduate from high school. i go to a historically black institution like winston-salem
grew up poor. the little education i had in the public school system. i ultimately graduate from high school. i go to a historically black university. i graduate with honors and i m on national tv every day. this is the road you got climb. mr. smith is correct. america does provide opportunities to those willing to get educated and work hard like he did. that is the truth. and steven smith told it. here s the tip of the day. even if you get hammered and i m sure mr. smith got some mail, speak the truth as you know it. better to be respected than liked. that s it for us tonight. check out the fox news factor website which is different from bill o reilly.com. spot off about the factor. o reilly @foxnews.com. name a town if you wish to opine. word of the day, don t be
welcome back to the fastest seven minutes in news. morning, noon or night. three stimulating stories. mark cuban made some remark aab statements about his own racism. stephen smith took those remarks and adds his oppose passion and flavor. i don t care who in the black community disagrees with me. i do understand that to some degree there s a level of racism that we all have to overcome. that doesn t mean that every single issue is race-related. sometimes it is about how you how you represent yourself. when we talk about the american dream, you know who i think about? myself. grew up poor. the level of education that i had was a public school system. i ultimately graduate from high school. i go to a historically black institution like winston-salem
he kept championing, trying to push lyndon johnson. obviously in the end the war in vietnam won out. i think johnson, himself, was deeply disappointed. this was a person who grew up poor, who understood and who felt that he wanted that to be his signature piece and instead the other war took him out. there is something deeply tragic about that transition. joining us now, economist betty stevenson, member of the obama administration s council of economic advisers. you, like maria, i imagine have been hearing the rhetoric of the war on poverty having failed. you did a report for the white house about the war on poverty. what s your response? that s exactly the question we wanted to look at is see how government programs affect poverty? what we needed was a measure of poverty that included the value of government programs, of taxes and benefits, transfers and benefits. and we needed then to look the at what would happen if we took those the value of those programs out.
vietnam? he was frustrated as was everybody who worked on the war on poverty in the office of economic activity. he didn t give up. he kept championing, trying to push lyndon johnson. obviously in the end the war in vietnam won out. i think johnson, himself, was deeply disappointed. this was a person who grew up poor, who understood and who felt that he wanted that to be his signature piece and instead the other war took him out. there is something deeply tragic about that transition. joining us now, economist betty stevenson, member of the obama administration s council of economic advisers. you, like maria, i imagine have been hearing the rhetoric of the war on poverty having failed. you did a report for the white house about the war on poverty. what s your response? that s exactly the question we wanted to look at is see how government programs affect poverty? what we needed was a measure of poverty that included the value of government programs, of taxes and benefits, transfe