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the can down the road", and says more will have to be done early next year to tackle the energy crisis. for the labour party to have a big, bold, strong, fully costed plan, which will not put them through that misery this winter is not kicking the can down the road, it is meeting the can down the road, it is meeting the concerns of millions of people who, even when they hear there sums of £3500 on energy bills. united nations inspectors are on their way to visit the russian—occupied...

We have one out of four african-american families living in poverty. thats unacceptable in 2015. one out of three black children living in poverty. we have got to come up with a formula whereby we can target funding into poverty communities that have had persistent poverty rates for many many years. i believe we can do that because, guess what? many of these -- many of these districts that are very poor are tepted by republican members of congress. they have a vested interest in working with us ...

Most promising future leaders involved to help. joining me is wendy copp, the founder and ceo of teach for america. thank you for being with us. a lot of us follow teach for america very closely. give me the elevator pitch for those who dont. >> you said it. this is about building the larger movement to ensure that all kids in our country, regardless of where theyre born, have the chance to attain an excellent education. and we go out and recruit our most outstanding recent college graduates and...

Zeroed out. so we are barreling toward being zeroed out. >> theres a lot of agreement between republicans and democrats get rid of earmarks but when you tell members of congress that teach for america is an earmark, whats their response? >> honestly i think every member said youre not an earmark, yet we are. we are an earmark and about to be zeroed out. teach for america just had 47,000 outstanding recent college grads and young professionals apply to teach in the lowest income communities. we h...