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And then obama have hugely expanded eligibility and benefit levels for the food stamp program. to give you one example, president bush changed the law and lo allowed immigrants to get food stamps. immigrants barred from food stamps. one must be on this in the last five years the number of americans in poverty has gone up 10 million but the number on food stamps have gone up 20 million. so you can see its not just a poverty problem. its this expansion in eligibility under the last few administrat...

And then obama have hugely expanded eligibility and benefit levels for the food stamp program. to give you one example, president bush changed the law and lo allowed immigrants to get food stamps. immigrants barred from food stamps. one must be on this in the last five years the number of americans in poverty has gone up 10 million but the number on food stamps have gone up 20 million. so you can see its not just a poverty problem. its this expansion in eligibility under the last few administrat...

And then obama have hugely expanded eligibility and benefit levels for the food stamp program. to give you one example, president bush changed the law and lo allowed immigrants to get food stamps. immigrants barred from food stamps. one must be on this in the poverty hasears the number gone up 10 million but the number on food stamps have gone up 20 million. so you can see its not just a poverty problem. its this expansion in eligibility under the last few administrations that is the real proble...

Going to talk about it, its a position that smart people shouldnt take. >> in the meantime, there does seem to be some movement on capitol hill on gun control. theres a bipartisan senate bill that would make gun trafficking a federal crime. at the same time thats going on, i dont know if youve seen it, congressman, but the nra is out with a new ad that specifically targets african-american youth. let me play a clip for you. >> its not a gun problem, its a culture problem, its a poverty problem, ...

austerity and fears of a meltdown. looking ahead to the rio environmental summit, a sharply contrarian take from someone who says the whole thing is a waste of time. finally -- >> i am for free press, fair elections and equal rights for women. i cant say that. >> what in the world? "the dictator" might be a fun movie, but dictators in real life are getting smarter, sav savvier and less authoritarian. but first, heres my take. were now in the general election campaign in the united st...

boris johnson, the mayor of london. he has a surprising message on the euro and on republicans. well talk about the olympics, of course. then, economics. a sharp discussion between two great scholars. robert skedelski, rbiographer o the euro, austerity, and fears of a meltdown. looking ahead to the real environmental summit, a sharply contrarian date from someone who says the whole thing is a waste of time. finally -- >> i am for free press, fair elections, and equal rights for w...

Every night. class warfare and the presidents attempt to redistribute wealth. we always ask -- does the strategy actually work? if you look at the statistics, you would be hard pressed to think that obamas economic agenda is helping in any way. the total number of food stamp recipients has increased by nearly 15 million people. and when it comes to americans living below the poverty line, that has increased by more than 6 million people in 2008. so with all of these numbers indicating that big g...

more than a decade. the economy has added jobs. thats 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 presidents approval rating has decreased. im not one to make direct correlations...

An e-mail and ill try to respond to as many as possible because after all i work for you. but i guess that wouldnt make for a very interesting drinking game. >> not only that it would make for unanimous credible disruption. if you look at the jobs problem in this country, which is really at the core issue, without jobs you have the poverty problem w-the poverty problem you also have the education problem, mental illness problem, violence problem, lack of tax revenue problem. i can go down the li...

As opposed to demonizing each other and saying, well, its chinas fault that america has unemployment or its none of americas business how china deals with poverty. is there any bridge to be built between these two men collectively to sort of begin a collaboration to solve the poverty problem in both countries? >> well, look, there is a -- one of the problems that american officials have shared with us that they say in dealing with the chinese and in dealing with the chinese government is that fi...