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Good morning, im melissa harrisperry. Hes a lame duck. He has a congress dominated by the opposing party. But despite rumors of his political demise president obama is kind of on a roll. Since his party lost the senate in november the president has allowed 4 million undocumented immigrants to come out of the shadows. Hes rebuilding relations with cuba. Hes pushing congress to catch up with the rest of the world and force employers to offer paid sick days for their workers and give paid parental ...

The program provides students with the skills that are necessary to succeed in college courses in pursuit of a degree or certificate.

Youre going to see dental care vouchers, thats the president last night laying out an alternative to something that has fallen out of the package which is a medicare expansion that includes things like dental, vision, and hearing. but also were seeing in this bill funding for childcare centers, climate change funding, elder care provisions. also drawing your attention to increases to pell grants, because this is, again, another one of the solutions to something that fell off the negotiating tabl...

Cut. that includes free community college program, for example, for two years envisioned by the white house. that appears to be out of this plan. as well as the clean electricity performance program. that is something that would incentivize power plants to switch to clean energy. that was being opposed by senator joe manchin. other programs are also being reduced. the paid family leave from 12 weeks to 4 weeks. looking at the child tax credit, only extended for another year and funding for home ...

And im upset about what he said about the city and the way he used the city. but more importantly, and every city has challenges to work on, let me say something about our city. our police officers took this as a very serious hate crime. and they dedicated the resources to deal with it as a hate crime. but then you literally put doubt, not only about the city but also, in addition, what about the person in the workplace facing discrimination? what about the young man dealing with his own sexual ...

Orientation and attacked for it in high school and now going to doubt whether people are going to believe him. you have put all those real stories at risk for your fake story. that is not right. that is not right for chicago. that is not right for what kind of city we are. i know this city. let me tell you an example of it. about three months ago, we were talking about our free community college program. and the young man at a breakfast that introduced me is the son of a syrian immigrant who fle...