action against israel. iran takes a provocative action. then where does it stop? do you then have to engage in a war? the united states clearly doesn t want to do that. wants to hit a message hit a few targets, and for this to be contained, but where a battle plan starts and writ ends are often two very different places. let me ask you one last question on this question of strikes. the last time that or certainly in our recent history, that we ve had success with this, with the question of human rights and then strikes, military strikes, it took 76 days of military bombardment to make a difference. the president doesn t seem, at least at this point, to be indicating that length of time. we re talking about maybe a day or two. again, it s hard to know exactly. do you have a sense, do people there on the ground have a sense that this is going to be a long-term situation, or are they expecting something brief? most people think that the u.s. strikes will be quite brief. a day, two
more than a decade and were still making a single-digit hourly wage, because only 2% of the jobs are managerial. the vast majority are these front line positions where the pay is very low. if i were to take, seriously, the idea that we want to pay our workers the very largest amount, and make it completely unique among all employers, because i don t know any employers who want to pay the maximum amount, then wouldn t unionization, wouldn t the right to unionize be a way of reaching that goal? absolutely. and remember, this is in the memory of the 50th anniversary of the march on washington. and one of those demands was a $2 minimum wage, which would be about $13 and change today. so the workers like miss davis and their colleagues, they re right on the money, so to speak, in terms of what it will take to live a livable life. what difference would it make to you if you paid $15 an hour? i feel like i could take care of my daughter, i could go back to school, i wouldn t have to b
proposal. if it s tied to federal support, my university, your university, they re going to opt out am so the point, because they don t really need the federal money. they have huge, billion-dollar endowments. so if they don t want the ratings or they don t want to be rated, they ll just opt out, and that s not containing costs for students. yeah, well, tulane doesn t, but tulane wishes it had an endowment of that size. but that said, it is true that some of the most vulnerable universities and colleges, those who actually take some of the students from your sixth grade, you know, class, are the ones that may be most hit by this. we were looking at historically black college and university dwrau graduation rates. at the top, they are as good as any elite university in terms of their rates of graduation. spellman, 79%. howard, 64%. hampton, up over 54. but when you go down to the bottom, the bottom five, they actually really are quite abysmal. down to 10%, 16% graduation rates. what