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Health care coverage is so high that when you hire workers here, you have to pay such a larger amount. that impacts our abilities to attract jobs here also, so thats something we cant take our eye off the ball on. >> im not going to talk about this anymore, its just going to irritate me. peter, its a pleasure, krystal, youre staying -- everybody is staying. coming up on the d.r. show, a two-part look at race, prisons, american culture and americas relationship with young, black men in this count...

Federation of teachers as being one of the toughestç unions in america. no one resists change quite like a university professor does. >> well, listen, you want to start a reform coalition, professor? >> well, id love to, but when i talk about these things on campus, im considered to be somewhat of a dissident or, as kindly said, peter, too controversial. >> thats a common around this tv show. our students graduating with lots of debt. weve discussed it. little job prospects. there are, however...

Whats going on in china and other places, how can we politicize the cost of college? we have to be making college as less expensive as possible. its crucial for the future of the nation. >> meanwhile, the technology that has just exploded into the world, the lives of everybody, is a nnihilating the cost of learning. its in the opposite direction, peter maresi, to the cost of the very education were theoretically supposed to be paying for. its like we lost our minds. >> this is an example of what...

Mechanism that would have been somewhat acceptable to both sides. its almost routine for the democrats to suggest funding something by cutting oil subsidies. the republicans vote no, and then the president gets to say, im for helping students, theyre for helping oil companies. education, thats a much bigger problem. education is in as much trouble as health care. universities are bloated, theyre too expensive, theyre overpriced, theyre terribly inefficient and poorly managed. >> krystal, as the ...

Is outrageous. >> when you hire a national, its not necessarily in your interest to do anything for americans, right? when big auto needed detroit to do good so we could do good for detroit, right? the corporation must do good for a nation that its a part of. when youre a multi-national, it doesnt matter to you. >> its the opposite. you want to do the pick-off. if you look, peter, at all the policies, and all the railing me really going back to 2008 have done. steel on wheels, 30 million jobs, a...