is out earning her husband. if the man is the primary earner then a certain number of wives would be stay at home. so that s depressing the median earnings in those house holds where the man is the primary earner. we should be sure to not cloud over the fact this does not change the fact that there are still great income disparities when it comes to men and women in the same jobs. correct. what you have is women who are primary earners in their households but not making as much as a man might in the work place. so you have women supporting households on less than a man might make. there used to be and still is to a certain extent a premium for husbands and a premium for fathers. you know, the husband premium shall the marriage premium for men. they would be, you know, earlier in the 20th century men would be paid more just because they were married just because they were fathers and husbands. women have traditionally been paid supplementary wages and the work place hasn t quite wok
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thing here. at the end of the day, you know, i went to school on a g.i. bill. i think your father went to school on the g.i. bill. they called that welfare. so i think that s put in place to help break, you know, the income disparities in this country is called welfare. since 1980, the income divides have exponentially grown. that has increased the number of those who live in the 1%, but also exploded the least of these. those people that live in the under class. but i ve got to tell you this. what s happening with this new economic downturn is that the middle class has been drawn into this permanent underclass. people who can t survive, cope, and make it. people who can t pay their own rent, who can t pay their own light bill because of gop policies. so until we turn that back, we ll never see this tide reverse itself and we ll never see families be able to get meaningful jobs and meaningful wages and provide for themselves. americans believe in the spirit of work. we don t believe in
earned income credits that go to poor and working americans welfare. i think that s the deplorable thing here. at the end of the day, you know, i went to school on a g.i. bill. i think your father went to school on the g.i. bill. they called that welfare. so i think that s put in place to help break, you know, the income disparities in this country is called welfare. since 1980, the income divides have exponentially grown. that has increased the number of those who live in the 1%, but also exploded the least of these. those people that live in the under class. but i ve got to tell you this. what s happening with this new economic downturn is that the middle class has been drawn into this permanent underclass. people who can t survive, cope, and make it. people who can t pay their own rent, who can t pay their own light bill because of gop policies. so until we turn that back, we ll never see this tide reverse itself and we ll never see families be able to get meaningful jobs and meanin
elected again as a progressive. he, too, called for fairness. this, of course; was a moment in which president obama said is a crucial moment for middle class. republicans immediately charged that this is all about class warfare. about what this? bring in the panel. damon stoudamire from the hill. mara liasson. and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. a.b., you thought on the speech, the moment, the reaction? i don t know that there is so much reaction. it s a speech in the afternoon that he gives speeches and something he relies on too much. i think if he hadn t given some of the speeches on healthcare and other things people would want to listen right now about speech of fighting for the middle class. income disparities. statistics he cited are staggering. it s a potent political argument for the president. he is running against republican economic policies. he is going to spend the next year talking only about his