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>> in the last decade, cash profits from sex trafficking have driven the pro live rags of massage parlors in virtually every city in america. but experts say the trafficking of men, women and children for labor is much more common. from indentured servitude in hotels, restaurants and factories, advocates say that modern day slavery is alive and well in even the most affluent of homes. for four long years, a family in suburban san francisco enslaved lily samat, a native of indonesia. >> i feel li...

Detroit. >> absolutely. thats another conversation that needs to be had. what happened in detroit has been in the making for decade. and you can make a direct correlation between what happened in detroit and segregation and disinvestment. that is not unique to detroit but more extreme in detroit. there needs to be a conversation about other similar cases in urban areas where you have sort of a majority minority population and ultimately there hasnt been much job creation living under very poor p...

Old, just graduated and looking to start your career. if youre interested in anything from media, film, publishing, or the fashion industry, its hard, while not impossible to find an entry level position that pays you because entry level are internships. 1 11.5 million people work as interns. hat half those are unpaid. msnbc recently began paying its interns so we do not have unpaid interns bringing this show to you. unpaid internships have become so much a part of the landscape of many of these...

Paying the bills for old white folks on social security. >> but will we see a shift? if the stats now, juan, are that we have more whites graduating from college than you have latinos or blacks, once they rise into the majority, do we expect that to change? do we expect those numbers to be reversed? >> historically, thats the trend. if you look back at everything from, you know, the irish, the italians, the poles, everybody as they, in fact, get more established, as their numbers rise, as they b...

After their kids moving out. but theyre saying that now its not people wanted less space, they just couldnt afford it. now that the economy is improving they can. so the national association of home builders survey found that buyers prefer a median home size of just over 2200 feet in line with the census average. that jibes with what builders are seeing. gl holmes says their four-bedroom home consistently outsells their three-bedroom model. but you have to remember in all of this, the people who...

Home price index posted the biggest rise in seven years up by almost 11% over the last 12 months. but republicans never mentioned this critical corner sw eercorne americanm meconomy. instead, they only want to talk about the irs. >> my question isnt about who is going to resign. my question is, whos going to jail over this scandal? >> so verbally constipated when it comes to really positive news on the housing market, but a nonstop stream of affluent when it comes to sending people to jail witho...

Interdependent materials. like conservative fathers, the conservative -- theres interesting research that they children more than liberal fathers. >> interesting. >> and likewise, the conservative protestant god is a very related, connected, present and also sometimes punitive god and we see that when you look at political discourse, you often have the independent side wanting to protect independent rights and the more interdependent side wanting to protect community, religion, and family. >> in...

Middle class and upper middle class. they know how to complain, organize and contact their congressman. >> the sequester and the reason the faa fix wouldnt be so galling if it werent for the fact that the budget is about choices, at the same time we pull the rug out of the feet of the least affluent, nothing is being asked of the moneyed interests, who always somehow seem to end up getting their way. managing editor of the grio.com, joy reid. good to see you. george will, champion -- >> who woul...

Children, elderly are not able to come and complain about the parts of the sequester that hurt them. it is business travellers, the affluent and people who travel and had flights delayed. it effected lawmaker s all acrs the country so they can agree to amend it in a way that they wouldnt necessary for some of the programs that represent fewer people and not in the same bipartisan way. that the complaint you have heard from the white house. that is not the way they expected the sequester to unfol...

Would have thought had my problem with it? >> yeah. we didnt study it. there is a long history of it and people like reagan democrats and one of the reasons people became reagan voters was because of a backlash against some sort of racial mixing of inner cities and things like that. a long history. we wanted to do an experiment on it. scientific experiment to show these things happening. whether places that are experiencing latino immigration that hadnt experienced before by having backlash agai...