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And the growing income gaps. i think this is is something that democrats want to be talking about for 2016. you have hillary here obviously talking to a group of women talking about her religious beliefs is echoing that. seeing hillary clinton as a religious grandma. over the weekend possible presidential candidate paul land says the gop must evolve, adapt or die. let s talk about the tangible example how the gop can broaden its base besides taking the libertarian route with the other candidates. what are the other options? francis, the biggest things they re talking about is reform. all the autopsies among the gop is they have to expand their base to minorities and specifically growing latino and asian voters. at the same time the rank and file does not seem to want to go along, especially in the house where immigration reform has ground to a halt. there are signs from john ....
Low-wage working people. if the jobs are there and they pay enough of a wage, including a higher minimum and work supports, then i think it s a great anti poverty mechanism. the problem with the republicans is they want to get rid of all that stuff and just somehow assume that good jobs are there. and they re not. and finally i agree. final word to you, james. the other issue, they make a moral case, almost as if people are poor and need government assistance are immoral or less moral. yeah. i i hate the moral authority discourse. it s been co opted by people who actually don t really care about the moral realities of poor people in this country. just look at the income gaps and widening wealth gaps between the 1% and the 2%, and these low-wage workers over the course of the last 30 years. it s getting worse. the rich are getting richer. the poor can t afford to put food on the table. so thanksgiving is an appropriate time for us to acknowledge this, and to talk more about ....
Can i point something out? rev. jesse jackson spoke earlier, made an interesting point. said we are as a group of african americans, we are freer, less equal. it is true, we are a freer society, income gaps are widening, median household income gap is widening, wealth is widening between whites and blacks, marriage gap is widening. so everyone talked about what the problems are but no one talked about what the solutions are, and the solutions are, andrea hit on one, education, graduate more african americans from high school and certainly need to graduate more with degrees from college, but we also need and we talked about this a lot, 72% of african-american kids born to unwed mothers is a problem. it is an epidemic. and the only way to fix some of these gaps is if you keep that african-american family together. and none of them that i heard, i didn t hear them all, i admit, but none of them addressed that. ....
School with you want to date books and technology was almost impossible for children of color. and that was revisited again in the 1960s. after the success of getting public accommodations passed, a voting rights act passed. the next big fight in the 1970s was busing, and it was the issue of people who lived in the community when the tax base couldn t support a decent school, which meant you couldn t get into the middle class. the bottom line is that civil rights leaders have always understood, the one way to lever yourself into the middle class is a good education, and access to that was just as important, if not more important, than getting to eat at woolworth s. dr. peterson, you re in education and i want to touch on what hillary was talking about. is it when you have economically challenged neighborhoods, you can t run a school system via property tax. that federal money has to be there, if we re going to be equal for all. but how do we get there? there s a couple things. we h ....
30, that generation has experienced two transformtive events. there s been terror, suicide bombers, peace plans that have been rejected by the palestinians on one side and then israel s emergence as a high-tech powerhouse which has caused income gaps and questions of whether the middle class can make it. i mean, these are issues that americans face as well, and so that that centrist party is reflecting some of these changes that have occurred in israel, these transformative events over the last ten years for people who are under 30, who are on one hand struggling with security questions but also struggling with the questions of whether they can afford housing. when when syria falls, the assumption is when assad falls at some point if this is unsustainable, and the assumption i know by a lot of experts in that region, that it s unsustainable there in syria, what role does the do you want to see the united states play in a post-assad syria? what is the role that israel ....