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Race? >> i have a really bad pun. can i say it? >> sure. we candy leet it. >> he was doing the anti-bindy project. get it? it touches on an important topic in new york which is the bamboo ceiling. de blasio is going after asian students because they are disproportionately represented in high school. he does not like that. he wants to cut them and makes more for people. >> hoe wants to go back in time time -- he wants to go back in time. >> so joe he is now trading on the fact that he is mindys b...

Like this? it was "all american girl" in the 1990s that had margaret cho as the star. why did it take so long? >> i generally think a lot of it has to do with the values that the generation before us placed in say law, medicine engineering, accounting our parents always told us to go into the professional field, do not go into the arts. being a chef or being an actor, it is not a profession thats looked up to and really valued in our culture. even my father was the one, when i was a kid, i had a...

Last three decades, the study says, the u.s. economy would be about 11% smaller. the report, which was partially funded by the department of labor, found that if women worked at 1979 levels, the u.s. economy would have lost over 7 $1.7 trillion in economic output in 2012. that amount, $1.7 trillion, is roughly the gdp of canada. one way to see what a country looks like when women doesnt work so much is to look at japan. japanese women are amazingly well educated, but for various cultural reasons...

$1.7 trillion in economic output in 2012. that amount, $1.7 trillion, is roughly the gdp of canada. one way to see what a country looks like when women dont work so much is to look at japan. japanese women are amazingly well-educated, but for various cultural reasons, they do not enter the workforce and stay in it. and those who do struggle to break the glass ceiling, or the bamboo ceiling. goldman sachs estimates that if japan could increase the female employment rate, the countrys labor force ...

>> ouch. but true, l.z. granderson wrote an opinion piece this weekend. kids may should go to school year round in part because were trying to compete with the rest of the world where theyre pretty serious about education. hi, l.z. what prompted you to write this piece? >> oh, man, saturd"saturday nig live" skit is a good place. it really started with my own frustrations as a parent. i have taken my son to four different schools in about two years desperately trying to get him into a s...