if you re trying to make sure that you don t have to leave an eight-hour job and then go to the food pantry so you can feed your family, that s a big idea. s.e., there are a lot of americans who are working every day very hard, not 16 and 18-year-olds selling tickets at a movie theater, who are trying to live off the minimum wage. it s time we gave people respect. we re rewarding work and say 23 you re going to work 8 hours a day, work a full day s work i m glad you brought up young people because there s 16.3% unemployment rate among youth. you are making it harder for people to hire more of those young people by raising the minimum wage. s.e., that s the argument the conservatives always make. no, that s economics. by the way, every year we continue to see more and more people working and 8 million more americans working in the last four years. there are a lot of those folks who are making very small salaries. when we re just saying is let s reward work again. let s do what
a serious conversation. what they did not ask for was a handout. that s all they wanted. let me explain how that works. if i just had access to more skills. if i had a better education. if you can help me find those opportunities to get a dad, my dad had a sixth grade education. okay. we can rival educations and who had less. let me move the conversation forward because i want to talk about what the president s definitely going to do in the state of the union tonight. as i mentioned, congressmen, farm bill, immigration reform, budget. we ve seen progress in all of these issues despite the president. don t you feel a little dismissed when the president says essentially, i m going to go around you guys? i mean, doesn t it seem like he s working around you instead of trying to work with you? s.e., you left out about probably 90% of his discourse, which was i want to work with congress, but what he said, which you ve blown out of
like to lose their country. those were exciting days. we lived in little shotgun house. one room for the three of us. in time, we had six children, moved from the shotgun to a duplex apartment to a house and lived the dream. high school football on friday nights, little league, neighborhood barbecue. a candidate s biography is a strange genera. it s not fiction, but it s not quite nonfiction either. lives, any life, have made up of thousands of experiences and a bio only has a room for a few. and a candidate s biography is made up of the stuff that voters are most likely to like. for instance, when we take a look at wendy davis biography, we get stuff like this. by the time i was 19, i also was already married and divorced and raising a young daughter myself, living in poverty and facing the same challenges and hardships that i d seen my mother face. she went from being raised by a mother with a sixth grade education, who supported her
house. one room for the three of us. in time, we had six children, moved from the shotgun to a duplex apartment to a house and lived the dream. high school football on friday nights, little league, neighborhood barbecue. a candidate s biography is a strange genera. it s not fiction, but it s not quite nonfiction either. lives, any life, have made up of thousands of experiences and a bio only has a room for a few. and a candidate s biography is made up of the stuff that voters are most likely to like. for instance, when we take a look at wendy davis biography, we get stuff like this. by the time i was 19, i also was already married and divorced and raising a young daughter myself, living in poverty and facing the same challenges and hardships that i d seen my mother face. she went from being raised by a mother with a sixth grade education, who supported her four kids, to living in a trailer park with her own child,
dell is honored to be part of some of the world s great stories. that began much the same way ours did. in a little dorm room 2713. this magic moment . she was raised by a single mother with a sixth grade education. she married young and by 19 was divorced and raising me as a single mother. you know how they say everything s bigger in texas. that certainly wasn t the case for the trailer we lived in. that was a portion of a campaign ad by texas gubernatorial candidate wendy davis, which features her daughter. but the dallas paper revealed wendy williams was 21, not 19 when she first got divorced and her mother attended school