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Shapes you and prepares you for the most important job in the world. policy is far more important than politics ideology or any of the other nonsense we see. i know what needs to be done. i have been there at all levels okay? >> welcome back to "hardball. this was ohio governor john kasich announcing his bid for the white house. kasich becomes number 16 in the crowded field of republicans vying for the republican nomination. joining me right now from ohio is casey hunt who was there for governor...

Struggling to make it and work every day. >> thats right. many of them we call the working poor. you talk about 45 million people living in poverty. there are countless other millions that dance along that federal poverty line who dont necessarily fall below the poverty line to where they can get federal benefits but are working every time. spend time on a native american reservation where theyre geographically isolated away from everything. but you go to that baton rouge to new orleans where fo...

From the mandate. with the collective bargaining agreement the business owner and the employees negotiate a agreement that works for both of them. some people have an issue with the hypocrisy. the chamber of commerce says that it could pressure companies to unionize to dodge the rate hike. the rhetoric of helping the working poor is a cover of organized labor. a federal reminder of the federal government just because pot is legal where you live does not mean government workers are allowed to smo...

Doubly tough. how do you reverse all this? >> it does ed. well, by public policy. so we need that to happen on the local, regional state, and federal levels of government. this didnt begin with the policing. youre absolutely right. we need to do something about poverty in communities of color and there are poor white communities as well in an appalachia appalachia. we feed to make sure we put people back to work. that means everything starts at the ballot box. and weve got to get that education ...

Always respond if we raise wages, it will be a terrible outcome. they said it about unemployment they said it about child labor, about social security. its not true. whats actually true is whats good for american workers is good for the whole society. people have more money in their pocket, they spend more money, which creates a virtuous cycle in which theres more employment for everyone. we need to stop taking seriously the trickle down idea which is like lets make rich people happy and that wi...

Decision. he had to say that. the country resoundingly said that by electing barack obama. that is a fact. that is undeniable. so the question going forward, i think, in the 2016 campaign is what next? are we going to stay on this foreign policy to define the election or are we going to try to find a new path forward with the working poor, the middle class who frankly arent that all wound up about foreign policy but the fact they cant get a decent paying job that supporting their families. thats...

Learned since -- well during the 2012 campaign and certainly since then is that income inequality, how the middle class is being squeezed, how folks in the working class cant climb up and those who are the working poor are mired there with no means of climbing up, which has always been the american dream, to move from one class to another, everybody is concerned about that. everyone white or black, latino everyone many this country is worried about their mobility. and so for the republican party...

White house the report which was likely affected by notably harsh winter weather in the first quarter reflects a slowdown in personal consumption as well as declines in fixed investment and u.s. exports as exports continue to be restrained by the global growth slowdown its interesting in the aftermath of baltimore a lot of liberals have been stating and restating that the post recession recovery hasnt really touched so much of america. the working poor, middle class. they havent seen it since 20...

Economy, kind of sympathy that economic and see democrats accuse them of therefore cutting taxes on the wealthy too much and doing too much redistribution, but thats an issue im working on, that will be the most interesting in the next few months, i suspect. >> quickly, i want your thoughts on this attempt to portray hillary clinton as the original elizabeth warren. >> yeah, its interesting. she goes back to the 70s and 80s when she was knocking on doors, you know, in arkansas asking if kids wer...

The mentally ill not to be in our prisons. we want the drug addicted to get rehab so they can get on their feet and we want the working poor to have incentives to be independent. we are doing all of that but we are also reforming welfare so that when people go in the welfare office they have one person that works with them that they get them to a baseline where they can begin to get trained for a job. we want the employers in the welfare office. we want them to be trained for a job that exists a...