do. we are not rushing anything so fast with coal. it s an economic argument that will hurt people in his shat short term. west virginians still have it live on planet earth. but how about free community college? in west virginia, 21% of the population is educated. but what a child tax credit, in west virginia 16% of the population lives in poverty and one-third of west virginia children lives in households that don t have enough food to eat or behind on their rent. joining us now is the bishop william j. barber of the poor people s coalition, president of repairers of the breach. wex expert on all the ways that the democratic agenda could help people economic. good evening to you. you are really going out of your way to make the point to joe manchin in particular that there are things in this large bill that would be of direct help to
access to new people. but i do think trump has advantages there, and as clint says. thanks very much for your analysis tonight. clint watts and roger mcnamee, we appreciate your time. coming up, senator joe manchin is against parts of president biden agenda that would help a lot of people in his home state of west virginia, especially low income people. reverend william barber, co-chair of the poor people s campaign is standing by to talk to me about this when we come back. this is the sound of an asthma attack.
but it is hard, whether it s this or voting rights, it is hard for low income folk and working folk and people who live in poverty to take that time, it s a privilege for the rest of us to be able to protest and get out there. you have warned that we must not discount these people, we think of them as voiceless and so we talk around them and about them rather than to them. you have warned that in fact they are a voting bloc, they are powerful, if they are rejected they will remember the fact that they were rejected. exactly. one of the things we need to hurry up an in america is that a third of the electorate is now pour and in the battleground states 40% are you the poor flow wealth, we want to mobilize them into a powerful block around an agenda. that is actually the sleeping giant. we just released a study called waking the sleeping giant and it shows on all the battleground states the real power that can turn elections s poll and low wealthy people. reverend dr. barber, it s
virginia has to live on planet earth so preserving coal for an extra day is not a good medium or long term plan, have a free community college? in west virginia we re only 21% of the population is college educated, what about a robust permanent child tax credit in forest for genius extend percent of the population lives in poverty and nearly one third of west virginia children live in households that don t have enough food to eat or are behind on their rent. joining us now is the bishop doctor william j. barbara the co-chair of the poor peoples coalition, the president of repairs of the breach, and we can add experts on all the way that the democratic agenda could help people economically. reverend barber good evening to you, you are going out of your way to make the point to joe manchin, in particular, that there are things in this large bill that would be of direct help to many, many people in his state. you re right, ali, it s people, we want to have a rally
thank you for joining us, the bishop william j. barber of the poor peoples campaign, always appreciate your time. before we go we have an important programming note, we have a very big night planned sunday here on msnbc, when you are going to get a chance to see the new peacock original documentary civil war, looking at the roots of division in this country. the film which is executive produced by henry lewis gates junior will air sunday at 10 pm eastern and tomorrow morning on my show velshi, i ll have a first look at the film, i ll talk to the director rachel and one of the history teachers who s featured in the film, and i had a chance to travel to jackson, mississippi this week where i talked to a group of students, professors and school teachers about race and education in this country. it was a fascinating and important discussion, you will see that and much more tomorrow morning at 8 am eastern right here on msnbc, and that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian willia