this country could not achieve its mission without the contributions of hbcus. we re only 4% of all the colleges and universitys in the countries. however we educate and graduate 21% of the students. so, we re number one in graduate 40% of the students that graduate in stem fields go to hbcus and 48% at the graduate level, 50% educators, 60% of those in health care fields. so, our contributions are there and we re significant with our contributions. and we don t shy away from it. our main problem is that we have to spend the first part of every conversation justifying who we are, defending why we exist, and trying to determine, make others see the value of hbcus. no other institution has to do that but hbcus. it s unfortunate that we have to do it that way, but that s where we are in america.
collaborations with. we re looking at various other revenue enhancement sources. for example, at tennessee state university, companies that are moving to nashville like amazon and apple and the various financial institutions, 53rd bank, board of directors, we re making public-private partnerships, meeting with them to ensure we can develop a sustainability model to keep us going despite the fact the federal funding may not be where it needs to be. for people that don t know, why are historic black colleges necessary? what role do they play? and what do they do that is distinct and unique that you will not get at other institutions? well, historically black colleges and universitys were established after the civil war to educate the newly freed slaves. from there many schools have gotten started and we ve grown and survived and thrived.
wage to 15 bucks an hour, a fight i ve been helping to lead. they want health care for all, medicare for all through single payer pay out program. it s absurd young people should be leaving clj $100,000 in debt. they want colleges and universitys tuition free. they want criminal justice reform. the truth is our campaign can generate that excitement. our generation can talk to m so of the trump supporters who know they were lied to when trump said he was going to provide health care to everybody. i think we are the campaign that can beat donald trump. senator, i would argue you made very similar case against hillary clinton four years ago and came up short. why do you think this time chuck, chuck i m just saying, you have part of the party that seems to be gravitating toward biden. go ahead. you know, we came up short, yeah. we took on the entire democratic establishment. we took on the democratic
felicity huffman, lawyori lough accused of participating in an elaborate scheme that s fast tracked their children s admissions into some of america s top schools and universitys. this was coordinated by a man named william rick singer. he set up a fake charity to pay high iq individuals to frequently take s.a.t. tests on behalf of his clients and even had some of the teachers put in the answers. as recruits of the crew team. you got to work at that for years and year to get on the crew team. even though neither daughter ever participated in a sport. in another instance, felicity huffman is accused of paying $15,000 to rig her daughter s
let s bring in adam kinzinger. congressman wobbles this report is quite concerning. yeah, it s really concerning. biological weapons to me are even more frightening than nuclear weapons. we can defend against nuclear weapons. we can see when they re fueled or fired off. biological weapons are much harder to track. when started deploying to the middle east, they started making american soldiers get an tracks vaccines because of this concern. that s a brutal regime, by the way, to get an tracks vaccine. this is a concern because when you have a nation like north korea that is messing in this biological realm, i don t understand enough about diseases but there are mutations that can make things airborne, et cetera. this is a major concern. we knew they had this program, but to see the leaps to which they re going and basically sends scientists to other universitys to learn microbiology, that s the kind of stuff we need to have red flags on and stop allows north korea