african-americans, really every american, include unemployment. education. the job problems, and also health issues among many, many others. our cnn contributor roland martin is the moderator of this event, and joining us now is one of the guests who appeared on one of the panels this week. she is nicole baker holdham. you are a vice president of teach for america, which everyone knows is a volunteer effort of teachers that has been around for 20 years now. you have accomplished quite a bit in your career as an educator, although you didn t start off as a teacher. born in detroit. you work for community faith-based relations now and have taught and trained over 4,500 teachers during the course of your work with volunteer for america, teach for america. you weren t always a teacher, but early on you knew that education was very important. tell us about that growing up in detroit. sure. growing up in detroit i had a chance to see educational
like lindsey graham s south carolina, my home state of virginia and north carolina. you are going to lose jobs in those states tobacco jobs gaining a few jobs in wisconsin. greta: i m terribly anti-smoking so i m not the one to talk about that this is a grant for people to teach kids not to smoke cigarettes and other tobacco products. it is a two-year grant. at the end of two years, all this money runs out and these five people who got jobs and you know that s over. unless the economy is really kicked up, they ve got job problems in two years this is not creating jobs. frankly, i don t understand paying them for media a million dollars to run ads. that s right. the reason i mentioned appleton, wisconsin there s a high unemployment rate there. they need jobs for businesses. this doesn t create the kind of jobs that americans thought they were getting when they signed on.
like lindsey graham s south carolina, my home state of virginia and north carolina. you are going to lose jobs in those states tobacco jobs gaining a few jobs in wisconsin. greta: i m terribly anti-smoking so i m not the one to talk about that this is a grant for people to teach kids not to smoke cigarettes and other tobacco products. it is a two-year grant. at the end of two years, all this money runs out and these five people who got jobs and you know that s over. unless the economy is really kicked up, they ve got job problems in two years this is not creating jobs. frankly, i don t understand paying them for media a million dollars to run ads. that s right. the reason i mentioned appleton, wisconsin there s a high unemployment rate there. they need jobs for businesses. this doesn t create the kind of jobs that americans thought they were getting when they
job problems short-term.e. we will watch the genie. the growing backlash against new york city terror trials, ner republicans and an increasing number of democrats arerein speaking out against theocrats decision to try 9/11 cinspirators in manhattan. will the president change his mind? my
fun, it s spentertainment. those familiar might not see it as threatening. at the same time, we ve within trying to talk about reduce the coarseness of political rhetoric especially in the tas and weeks after the congressional baseball shooting that wounded several including the majority whip of the u.s. house. the conversation about how far should language and behavior and tweeting go, the president has picked plenty of fights over the last couple of years since he became a candidate and now president and says he will stick with his twitter habit. he believes that it is his way to go around the media and many of his top aides say that is something that should be one of his tool to fight back. others are saying this is inappropriate. that the president did cross a line. it also serves as a distraction because as you pointed out, there s a health care debate, b problems within the republican gop conference on trying to revolve some kind of bill. that isn t going anywhere at the moment.