Economic inequality issues. Why the censorship of this topic . Robert, i hope you are watching. This morning, three hours discussion on class in america. We want to hear from you. We have divided the phone lines by income levels. You can see them. You make 25,000 and under and want to talk about class, income inequality, taxes, 202 5853880 is the number for you to dial. If you make between 26,000 and 50,000 a year, 202 5853881. To 100,000 51,000. Year, 202 5853882 if you may more than 100,000 a year, 202 5853883. Cspanwj. Send a tweet, you can make a comment on facebook. Send an email. From this mornings Financial Times newspaper. Inequality rises despite u. S. Recovery. Recovery and growth failed to turn around one of the defining trends of the modern economy. According to a definitive source of data on inequality, the u. S. Federal reserves survey on finances, median family incomes fell 5 . The boom in the stock market and recovery in house prices fueled gains in the wealth of the ri
Other concerns about being able to do that. They were able to do that in washington because of their unique data set to allow them to easily identify folks. We have a few minutes left. Ill ask you as we go through the last couple of questions, to pull out the blue evaluation form, if you havent done it already, and fill it out as you listen, so that we can get some feedback on what we ought to do to serve your needs better. Lindsey . Yes. I think both of you talked about hospice care and longterm care inside the prisons. And i was just wondering why cant these people be released at that point . Why are they still incarcerated when they probably are not a threat to society anymore . Just wondered. For georgia, i can speak that our clemency entity, the board of pardons and patrols, has the authority to decide whether someone is eligible to be released. We have a very active medical reprieve process. Right now we probably have about 65 of those inmates that we submit for consideration tha
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It cost me 365 per person. Okay . At that price, stuff happens. I understand. They didnt expect this to happen no matter what you pay. But i got a tweet from Carnival Cruise last week that the week of february 1st was cold, remember that . They booked 187,000 people on their future cruises in one week. I think people are still going to cruise. To jays point, its bulletproof. Chad myers, still seeing you tomorrow but i guess bon voyage. Next week. Obviously you saw Victor Blackwell on the boat in that safety range, 500 feet out per the coast guard so we can see this cruise roll in to mobile, covering this by air, helicopter up there for you. Stay with cnn. Im brooke baldwin. Lets send it off to washington. Hey, wolf. Brooke, thanks very much. Were getting exclusive live pictures of the cruise ship, the carnival triumph. Passengers are calling in, they are sending us pictures of what they describe as revolting continues on board. Their other big news as well. A key vote on the republican