me and stuff. i treat people how i want them to treat me. math is one of my better skills. it comes easy to me. so something that she struggles with that s easy for me, if i can help her with it, it s not going to hurt me to sit down with her for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 yes, okay. melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there s not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself now out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i m like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don t know. 37 years old. i can t do this no more. i don t want my brothers to be here.
can help her with it, it s not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 yes, okay. melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there s not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i m like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like [ bleep ], i don t know. 37 years old. i can t do this no more. i don t want my brothers to be here. we better than that.
but i do know that we have a real crisis in this country, with students not coming up of college, not learning math, not learning history, not learning important things like that, but also, a lot of crazy sounding courses being taught which are sort of almost touted by these colleges and universities. but let s not forget, this $6 million every year that this is going to cost taxpayers, yes, you know, we can talk about the students, but who benefits ultimately from this? the colleges and universities. and what are they doing every year? they re jacking up rates. and maybe, just maybe, if they found out that the government wasn t standing behind students, ready to do le out all this money, maybe the colleges and universities would say we need to figure out a way to do this more efficiently. jon: so it s not a bailout of colleges and universities per se but it backs up the student loans that are keeping them afloat.
more than a decade. the economy has added jobs. that s the most important thing, for 17 straight months. more than two million jobs in the last year alone. so there are real signs the economy is improving, but gas prices have been soaring. the cost of living rising. the most in more than ten months. some americans may be feeling left out of this economy. diane swonk, diane, as gas prices have increased, the president s approval rating has decreased. i m not one to make direct correlations, but there s been really nothing else that might have caused this. there s a clear breakdown based on where americans fall in the economy. your thoughts let me show you a poll first. a cbs/new york times poll shows among those making more than $100,000 a year, the president s approval rating has replamained relatively flat. meanwhile the approval rating for those making 30 to 50,000 a year dropped by 16 points. diane, is this a clear illustration that we ve got two americas on two very dif
it comes easy to me. so something that she struggles with, that s easy for me, if i can help her with it, it s not going to hurt me to sit down for ten minutes and write out the multiplication tables. all i have here is time. why not use it for something constructive? 30, 40, 50 yes, okay. melissa sees learning math as a step toward getting her life back on track after years of drug addiction and prostitution. monday through sunday, nonstop, every day. there s not a day that passed, every day. i did crazy i looked like a damned fool. i could see myself out there. i looked like a damned fool, running around thinking i m like [ bleep ]. probably smelled like one, i don t know. 37 years old. i can t do this no more. i don t want my brothers to be here. we better than that. we re the allens.