Ok. And our guidepost for our kids, the next generation, are they doing better than they are. That has changed. And people are really anxious about that. They want to work hard and they want to do ok. So i think there is when i looked at the elections, in 2013, Chris Christie won in new jersey, that is true, but so did minimum wage expansion. Terry mcauliffe won in virginia, walsh in boston, palacios in new york. Blasio in new york. Toledo, the person who was protested education could you speak up . The person who was pro education won. So there is something going on in the country that is about, yes, working hard. Nobody wants a handout. But lets level the Playing Field so we have great Public Education and we have ways for people to enter or reenter or reenvision the middle class. You may call that populism, but frankly when you hear pope francis Start Talking about that, too, i think we have had a lot, a lot of years of trickle down economics and austerity based economics, and it ha
Nancy pelosi response to squeaker boehners remarks about House Republicans and women candidates. She is joined here by other democrats at this 40 minute briefing. Good afternoon. How are you all . Thank you for coming. Shelling to start telling grandchildren stories. He says greatgrandchildren. We all think our grandchildren are great. To believe. Good afternoon, everyone. Yesterday, as you know, president obama made a call to act regarding income inequality in our nation, increasing the minimum wage, equal pay for women, and in the workplace, earl Early Childhood education and prek have been part of his proposal all along. I was excited to hear what he said echoed. When women succeed, america succeeds, and this is our agenda. Income inequality, as he pointed eroding thely middle class, which is the backbone of our economy. Earlier, a representative from kentucky talked about how it is the right thing to do to improve the health of thousands of his citizens over the next decade. He als
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