graduating in debt compared to 61% of white students. not only are more black students graduating with debt, they are graduating with higher levels of debt. according to the report, 27% of black bachelor degree recipients have more than 30,000 in debt compared to 16% of their white count parts. it is against this backdrop that student loan rates are set to double on july 1. a republican bill being considered this week would have student loan interest rates change year-to-year based on the 10-year treasury note a move that cut could push rates as high as 7.4%. this is unacceptable. . this would price out students from the american dream. at a time when a college degree is more vital than ever to national and global competitiveness, we would be putting the goals on attaining a degree further out of the reach of our young people, particularly young people of color. our students, many of whom have graduated to find themselves unemployed or underemployed, are already struggling to
door, let s say. but i don t think she really impressed upon her father or wanted to push her particular point of view. plus she was married to a senator. her husband was a senator. so she was very aware of what was going on. but mainly taking it from the back door, so to speak. one of the telling sources says that someone appealed to her for clemency for mary serrot. she said i feel so terribly sorry for you but i have no more right to speak to him about this than any of the servants. she kept it background. hi, darla? caller: my question was, are the johnsons the last president to own that were former slave owners, or were there more presidents after them? thank you very much. that s a good question. i wanted to say no. i was thinking of an group sorry, ulysses s. grant was opposed to slavery. so the presidents after that did not. that sad part of our history ends with the johnson administration. the first six, seven presidents all did have slaves other than the j
this is the room she returned to. she is obscure. who he needed. abraham lincoln s assassination weeks after his second inaugural shocked a war-raffvadged nation. johnson s wife eliza was 54 years old when she was thrust into the role as first lady. he navigated the end of the civil war, reconstruction in the south and his own impeachment. this week on first ladies, the life and times of eliza johnson. . we learn more, let me introduce you to our two guests. jacqueline burger is in the midst of a biography collection called love, lies and tears and joining us from her home in southern california. and a greenville, native and long time employee of the national park service. and is an joyey of the andrew johnson historic site. the country has lost presidents before, but this was the first assassination. what was it like in washington, d.c.,, the capitol and white house, was it orderly transition, chaos or something in between? it was disbelief. they could not believ
meteorologist tom kierein. saw quite a bit of rain last night cross the area. i ran into fog coming in along with the sprinkles. and lightning too. and some hail. we had all kinds of things going on. actually, high water too in a few locations in montgomery county. watch out for that. that s where a lot of the heaviest rain fell. right now storm team 4 radar showing most of the rain gone. we still have the possibility of a few scattered light showers. rye now you see patches of green. those are some sprinkles now after the heavier downpours have come through the next couple of hours. just lingering sprinkles in fairfax county, loudoun, western, and northern prince william county. parts of northern fauquier and into the shenandoah valley. northern shenandoah valley had some hail last night. still a few lingering showers panhandle of west virginia and western maryland. there s one here shady side up toward annapolis. that s heading across the bay north and east now. tempe
good evening. i m savannah guthrie in tonight for brian. it s the eve of a much anticipated jobs report. the experts hoping it confirms the signs we re starting to see throughout the economy, that we may finally be in a recovery that is built to last. consumers are out spending and employers are hiring. the number of people in unemployment lines is the lowest it s been in four years, but there is a long way to go to truly come back from this great recession. we begin with cnbc s sue herrera. call it the warm weather effect. retailers today reported stronger than expected sales. the reason, they say, the sun is out and people are buying. it s perfect. it s perfect for shopping. at target and macy s, sales were up more than 7%. nordstrom and gap, 8%. this week, gm, ford, and toyota each credited warm weather in part for strong sales. consumer spending jumps in february by the most in seven months. there s no question there s been two effects. the economy has gotten stro