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And let me give you some statistics that are scary. in the san joaquin valley of california where we produce the majority of the vegetables and fruit for the whole nation, here in this beautiful valley, there have been over 22 prisons built. and only one university. so we have that school to prison pipelines we have now and were trying to stop. this is also a big burden on the taxpayers. when people are put in prison, it costs more money as jesse jackson used to say, it costs more money to keep ...

Many ways. we want to raise our children safely, have them in good schools and in good schools and safe neighborhoods without having to worry about gentrification and assimilate into other peps culture. there are a lot of things were worried about. elizabeth warren is resonating with black women voters specifically, especially our readers. shes done a couple of op-eds around maternal mortality, closing the school to prison pipelines. those things matter. bernie sanders has focused on a multiethi...

Where many of the girls being picked up for a range rf crimes, including prostitution, were vic tms victims of human trafficking. theyre trying to give these girls of kind of services they need to rehabilitate themselves and get rid of these charges. fact that these young girls are being picked up on the street, being preyed are upon by pirmps put out for really the commercial sexual exploitation of girls, then of course it would be no wonder they would get caught up into the system. we focused ...

Narratives. >> we said that with the initiative being pushed by the white house to focus on boys of color, you have people saying what about girls? i spent my afternoon yesterday with girls, all victims of domestic abuse, they have never had anyone tell them they were of value, what about those girls, what about kids who grow up in depressed areas, white and black, they need their focus, they need their plan too. >> people that work in these spaces are very concerned about this kind of competiti...

Emanuel is framing the issue. i applaud the fact hes not making it a black pathology issue, single parent households or lack of mentoring, thats the typical response that you have from people who deal with issues of gun violence. i do think by talking about it only as too many guns and not too many school closings, too many schools to prison pipelines too many unemployed young people in chicago, not dealing with the ways in which he as mayor can locally grapple with the issue and maybe preventvy...