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That the other guests have been talking about. but we also have, of course, this poverty gap and interestingly when you look at married black families, that number goes down to 8%. so what kind of policies can we implement that will encourage marriage in the black community. >> we have to wrap it up. want to give you the last word when it comes to that. >> i would also -- i agree with amy, i would say that unemployment is still twice that in the black community as it is in the white community. t...

A decade is worrying political and business leaders in south africa the countrys economy contracted 3.2 percent in the 1st quarter now south africas economy has already shrunk by the largest amount in a decade largely due to a decline in manufacturing and mining its a major blow to president cyril ramaphosa who was reelected only a few weeks ago among his election promises a pledge to fight corruption and create jobs so far though his efforts to close the poverty gap have failed unemployment rem...

Sleepy pattern, we were like the sleepy mississippi, the city was about to just slide in the river anyway. we had no economy to speak of, its all based on tourism, and locals had sort of given up, and there was not a lot of civic involvement. i think katrina was a wakeup call, i think that there should be -- we need to be mindful of the fact that the poverty gap is huge here, we have the second biggest rich and poor gap in the country. a lot of people in this town are doing really well, more bus...

Lowering the tax to bring this american profit home. [ applause ] even in this polarized congress we have a chance of passing this. i say lets bring $2 trillion home to america. lets bring it home now. liberal policies have failed our inner cities. lets just get the facts straight. they have failed our inner cities. our schools are not equal and the poverty gap continues to widen. martin luther king spoke of two americas, described them as two starkly american experiences that exist side to side...

Lowering the tax to bring this american profit home. even in this polarized congress, we have a chance of passing this. i say lets bring $2 trillion home to america. lets bring it home now. liberal policies have failed our inner cities. lets just get the facts straight. they have failed our inner cities. our schools are not equal and the poverty gap continues to widen. martin luther king spoke of two americas. he described them as two starkly different american experiences that exist side by sid...

Republicans say theyre going to quit their jobs for the subsidies. and there was a example of the single mother who can quit her job to spend more time with her children. does this show its the beltway clarks being out of tur. ? >> i dont think so. theres two narratives, those benefiting from the law and those caught in the transition, who thought they were getting one thing or having to give up their current program go to another plan. there are two different narratives on this. i think each pa...

Can you believe that? its our lucky day. [ applause ] 2011 teacher of the year in connecticut. and you voted that less than 1/3 should go to teacher evaluation. that is completely on the other side of the planet than everyday folks in that gallup poll. what is the gap? whats the problem? >> i think the gap is that everyday folks in that poll dont understand the realities of classroom teaching particularly if you are teaching in districts where theres a high level of poverty. its very very diffic...

The very people creating these policies choose the opposite for their own children. instead of investing hundreds of millions of dollars, the state of new york raised $700 million. that is being used for testing. we could be using that money to provide our teacher, provide music teachers, not just air-conditioning. thats, you know, we are talking the narrowing of curriculum and the lack of experiences that would really bridge that achievement gap or poverty gap. unfortunately, our policymakers a...

>> again, were looking at part of the dream fulfilled, but also part of the dream for many not a dream but a nightmare. so tamron, you ticked off the things and the reverend sharpton did, too, education, the gap. health care, a gap. the astronomical prison incarceration, gap. the poverty gap. what were seeing is something dr. king isnt really have to grapple with. were really seeing a two-tiered america, black america. were seeing african-americans that are doing wildly successful on the one han...

>> what lessons can the military and egypts eventual new government learn from mubarak? where did he go wrong in the eyes of the egyptian people? >> i think he went wrong in underestimating the ability of the egyptian people to stand up to him and not blink. despite all the horrors that he unleashed on them. you know, the camelback thugs and the water cannons, all of that. but i think even more importantly, he was so totally out of touch with what 30 years of his repression had done to egypt, es...