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environment checanges around yo and allowed you to win. one of the places laura kelly campaigned for governor, when she was on her way to winning the state house, one of places she campaigned was in dodge city. what did she campaign on? improving voters access to the polls. now voters access to the polls is improved and she s in charge of state government and chris is unemploy unemployed. this time you will no longer have to leave town before you vote. there is still a couple things to watch here. the case was dismissed without prejudice which means it can come back if plaintiffs come to believe they need to do that in order to hold the county and hold the state to account, right? to make sure hispanic voters will get equal treatment. it can come back. that s what dismissing without prejudice means and if you think about it, it is still a little bit nuts for 13,000 voters,
hire young people. tell us a little bit more about the commitment that your organization made at cgi? the commitment we made was to go out and find 100 small businesses to kind of stand with us and be a part of the solution. we understand the problem is youth who are out of school and unemploy unemployed. we thought small business should be able to step up and be a part of the solution. and we are committed to finding small business owners to stand with us to go forward in this movement. i want to look at some of the latest figures here on youth unemployment specifically. the unemployment rate right now for 16 to 19-year-olds in america, 19.2%.
right? and we have republicans really coming out saying this is a great tragedy. one in four americans as we reported say unemployment is number one on their list. so is this a success for the obama administration or is this as the republicans are calling it a real tragedy? it s painfully slow. let s be honest. we ve had a recovery, all the numbers say it continues. but we don t have very long attention spans in this country, especially if you re not working. and it s not really that the numbers are so shockingly high. it s that we have a new kind of unemploy unemployed. people who are out of work for months and months and months and some fear they may never work again. so it is a political rproblem. and some folks won t get long term benefits. you re right. an think for td i think for the in modern american history, middle class folks can say that could be me. that won t just be the loser down the block or the guy who
good morning. i m marci gonzalez in for diana perez. i m john muller. here are some of the top headlines we are following this morning on world news now. california fire crews on high alert. and they expect to remain there throughout the day because of the extremely dry and windy conditions. it s far from over as we see in our top story in a moment. the retired florida police captain charged with shooting a fellow moviegoer to death has been denied bail. police say curtis reeves shot and killed chad oulson after the two men argued over oulson s refusal to stop texting. senators are deadlocked to reinstate benefits for the unemploy