items. there is no incentive for many to break out of that. i agree with that, but there is two factors that are even more exacerbating so to speak. there are many of these programs that help define poverty and whether you are impoverished that are an incentive for the dad not to be in the home, for the dad not to marry the mom. and that increases the likelihood that the child, six, seven, eight times more likely to live in poverty if the dad is not around. one other thing is people claiming disability. everybody on the long island railroad. almost every conductor can be considered on disability and get ssi at the age of 40 or 50. your back hurts or you have a mood disorder. these things did not exist when we were coming up. a mood disorder. everybody in television news would be on disability, right? everybody. back hurts and then tv being
day. can the popularity last? is tv being changed forever? and the pop culture lead, god help us, 1.5 billion people watched his video for gangnam style. while i m still trying to get that out of my head, psy just leased a new single. does he have another hit on his hands or will he suffer the curse of the macarena? we begin with the world lead. a huge mistake, that s what america s secretary of state says north korea would be making if it goes ahead with a missile launch that could happen any minute. john kerry is attending talks in seoul, south korea, which is only about 30 miles from the dmz. he warned that america won t tolerate north korea as a nuclear power and also said the u.s. will consider resuming talks with pyongyang but not if kim jong-un continues to test the world s patience. it is a huge mistake for him to choose to do that because it will further isolate his country
want to take your life. jamie, you spend meaningful portions of your television career on tv being asked your opinion about a given incident. i don t want to hear your opinion on an incident, i want to hear your opinion on culture that continues to bear out incidents like this, like toxic waste. right, right. and i want to thank you for having this conversation, because this, dylan, is the conversation we need to have. dr. chavis just said something critically important. this is not and so have you. this is not about a single incident, this is not about a single case. all of these cases in that beautiful piece you just aired, they re all linked, and they re linked to so many other cases that you did not have time to go over. countless cases that we all know, going all the way back to emmettville and before. this is a story that is part of
welcome back to hardball. after yesterday s spectacular stock market surge, plus huge retail sales numbers over the thanksgiving weekend, could there finally be signs americans can feel that the economy s improving? well, plus, cable tv seems to have rewritten rules for retail politics in a presidential race. has the power of face-to-face, one-on-one politicking, especially in early caucus and primary states been replaced now by the tv debate and by tv republican side on fox? these are the questions for our strategist today. number one, with mitt romney selling himself as the businessman candidate, who ll save the economy, could a better economy be bad for mitt? number two, how does this new political playbook with tv being so important change the game foç both democrats and republicans? steve mcmahon, our buddy on the democratic side, he s a strategist.