other people because necessities is what it is beating up, food, bread, water, meat, gas and so it makes it even tougher on those. and with the wage changes, the biggest wage changes we re seeing wage changes go way up. people making more money they ve ever made in their lives but usually not at the lower end of the spectrum. so this is this whole story line is much more tough on somebody making $30,000 a year than somebody making $130 a year. this is an inconvenience if you make 130,000 a year. you tighten up on a budget but when you are making 30 or 35 a year this is tough and you ve got to make every dollar count with a written game plan and you have to start looking at what you can do to participate in some of these careers that are going up instead of just riding along here at the bottom on the wage scale. it is a tough place to live in
education costs something different. we have students in the state right now with all the motivation, the drive, the determination in the world, they just don t have the financial wherewithal to get over the initial hump r hump. we want to ensure that they have the opportunity to compete for 21st century jobs in the united states. when you break it down, the students pay potentially more, less, but again, the caveat here is that they re paying it back into the program, interest free saving tens of thousands of dollars ensuring to create what we call a cycle of success here in the state of michigan. we ll break down what you were talking about there. somebody making $50,000 a year coming out of a 4-year university paying about $40,000 total. once they re paying it back. somebody making $30,000 a year would be paying about $24,000 for that same degree. now, what schools? don t you need your schools there in the state to be on board with this? how does this work? well, i tell you, w
people ought to have a tax subsidy. $1,800, $2,000 deductible. that s too much for somebody making $30,000 a year. the price range got screwed up. we awe know, the flaws, the bill written in senate finance committee. and insurance companies. lieberman held them up. got rid of the public option at the last minute. all this kind of stuff. again, i say we are where we are. we got to make this thing work. do our best to make it work. hopefully it will change as we go on. 20 years ago. i did this stuffen our state when i was governor. we waited 20 years. now talking about a single payer. howard dean. ezra thank you for joining us
baurer shbaur barbersh barbershops, diners, universities, the halls of congress, the white house and every other place. stan, did the president err in pushing for health care and not pushing on this agenda? the income inequality agenda? first of all, we re not the thrust of our book is what s happened to the middle class. the hit they ve taken. the fact they re not making income gains. it is a premer on how to win re-election, is it not, for barack obama? not going after the top 1%. you absolutely need to raise their taxes. there s so much we need to do. what we re trying to do is raise the middle class. that s the central argument. yeah, if somebody s making $3 million, makes $3.3 million, that s great, but what worries me is somebody making $30,000 and not making $33.3. that s my problem. there s a tweet from ben smith at buzz feed, he talked to you at the 92nd street y and confided, perhaps, that you think bill clinton wants hillary