meetings start at 11, cindy. [ male announcer ] get the spark business card from capital one. choose 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase, every day. what s in your wallet? i need your timesheets, larry! welcome back to the 50 year war. i m joined tonight by maria shriver. the story of poverty in america today is not just the story of the nearly 50 million people living below the federal poverty line. it s also about the americans living on the brink. just one broken down car, one serious illness, one family
we re back. i m chris hayes here with maria shriver. government cannot wave a magic wand and make poverty disappear tomorrow, but there is a whole lot our government could to improve the lives of tens of millions of people. especially women toiling in poverty. here to talk about a proactive agenda to do just that is new york state senator kirsten gillibrand. new york senator gillibrand, you have a kind of platform that you re pushing to deal precisely with this issue. what is it? a number of things. first, we have to create workplace rules that actually reflect who s in the workplace. almost half our workers today are women. women are earning more than half the college degrees, more than half the advanced degrees in this country. so if we re ever going to reach the full potential of this country, we really have to tap into the full potential of women. so something as simple as paid family medical leave. more often than not when there s a new baby in the family,
here now, some here now some of this week s images to remember. this week s images to remember. coming up next here, 50 years since the war on poverty. women are doing it all. both bredwinners and caregivers and millions struggle financially. mariah shriver is here to unveil the startling results of the new report next. it s a new shriver report. we ll talk about it. dad, it says your afib puts you
thank you, david. before we have our conversation, i want toi look a the key findings. reporter: the troubled headline from the report, 1 in 3 american women live at or near the brink of poverty, 42 million million and 28 million children that depend on them living a medical illness, a missed paycheck, a broken down car away from economic ruin. the face of insecurity changed from 50 years ago when president johnson launched his war on poverty. the man who led that effort was mariah shriver s father, sergeant shriver. they re getting too little food, inadequate education, living in sub standard housing, but most of all, they have no chance of getting out of the condition they re in and joining the rest of american society. reporter: back then, the face of poverty was appalachia. today, it s mother s like cap katrina working as a nurse in a
obamacare web site pointing to problems. it s not the only pointing to problems that we ve seen, has been with revealed over the last several weeks. this was going on for months, and yet they went ahead. and be we may recall the president s counsel, the white house counsel did not knew about the problem about selective enforcement by the irs directed against conservative organizations, but didn t tell the president. well, you know, go back to sergeant shriver, the brother-in-law of the late president kennedy, he said i want to know the bad news. he sent people out in the field, said people tell me this program s working. i want to know what s not working so i can fix it and make it better. president obama doesn t seem to take that approach. jon: well, and his trustworthiness has plummeted according to some of the latest polls. americans just don t think that the occupant of the oval office can be trusted. well, the president said 24 times, 29 times frequently in public appearance