Is with the middle class laid bare, with a more precarious position than we realized in the early 2000s. Theye lost a lot of what had. Middleclass Home Ownership was down after the recension recession. Business ownership was down. Middleclass incomes fell not just in the recession, but in the recovery. It only stabilized in the last couple of years since then. They maybe going up again, finally. Be going up again, finally. When we think about the frustrations they are feeling now, it is not just because the recovery and recession were bad. Things were pretty bad before that. A pretty terrible economic decade for most americans and we did not realize that as much because they were spending money they did not have and now they have to pay it back and stop borrowing until we see a situation where it debt frustrations are boiling over. Host were talking about american middle class, the numbers are on the bottom of the screen. You can also participate on social media. Mike is in chicago. We
Of how even inadvertent micro aggressions can disrupt a Students Learning experience. In 1987 we knew that the ku klux klan uniforms hung from a dormitory window of michigan was a racist act. Just as in 2015 we knew that the new strong around the statue of James Meredith at mississippi was a racist act. It turns out to be even deeper and more daunting than we understood. Dynamics exclusive to racial issues. The most recent data regarding the number of sexual assaults. The concept of campus date rape was still relatively new. We have awe have a much broader understanding of the extent of victimization. We have engaged in a debate that has a deal pedagogically with the statistical reality that almost certainly more than one of our students will still be suffering under the trauma of such an experience. We are serious conversations to get done. Wimps, weaklings, whiners. Political correctness, phrase that had not emerged since 1989. Being as it is, people substitute for an argument. We ha
Plus protests turn violent as Community Members confront philadelphias Police Commissioner. What got them so angry . Good evening. Im jacqueline london. First, we are tracking snow. You can see the storm moving in. It could cause a mess not only during the morning rush but in the afternoon as well. Penndot crews are getting ready for the snow. We spotted them outside philadelphia pretreating the roads ahead of the storm. Glenn hurricane schwartz is tracking that snow. Glen. Yes jacqueline the snow is going to be moving this way, perhaps a little bit more slowly as far as getting heavier is concerned and its coming and why we have a first alert weather day out for tomorrow. It will be slushy snow and big red flakes as they come down and the afternoon rush and heaviest of that snow north of the pennsylvania turnpike. You can see the general trend to the east. This area is interesting, the beginning of the development coming right at us. When it first starts it may be light and not cause
Committee will come to order. Welcome to todays commerce, justice, and science subcommittee hearing examining the department of justices disco year 2016 budget request fiscal year. Let me welcome Loretta Lynch to her first hearing before this subcommittee as she assumes the important spots ability of serving as our nations chief Law Enforcement officer. Welcome. As you begin your twoyear term as attorney general, i believe it is critical for you to return the office of attorney general to its constitutional purpose which is to enforce the laws of the land, not the degrees and winds of the president. The president has a white House Counsel and pretty plenty of attorneys arguing for his point of view on immigration environmental regulations and more. The attorney general, i believe, is the servant of the loss and citizens of the United States, not the president. I want to encourage you, madam attorney general, to consider this perspective carefully as you begin your service in a job that
Eager to join in dialogue about where we as a nation find ourselves in this drive towards freedom and it seems particularly fitting that we would have this conversation today, the day after the nation paused its daily business to pay tribute to reverend Martin Luther king, jr. s life and legacy. And it seems fitting that we would have this conversation the day after the nations first black president was sworn in for his second term. I know much of the nation has already moved on, and president obamas rhetoric about the promise of america, life, liberty, justice, equality for all has already been forgotten by many, and i know that many people in america will not think of dr. King again until his holiday rolls around again next year. But i would like to us to pause to night and think more deeply about the meaning of dr. Kings life and his legacy and what it has to teach the nations present. It seems important to do that given that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the march on wash