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More complicated environment that were working in. you have to be politically savvy, culturally savvy and media savvy and theres so much information coming at people. once again, as i said, people are divided. some people only want to focus as a civil rights issue on marriage equality and some people think this is a womens issue and some people think its income disparity and some people think its still a race issue. its a much more fragmented issue to talk about and to try to break through on. a...

Call centers received more than 430,000 calls. >> chris matthews, tends of the day, americans are pragmatic. if obamacare works, it will succeed. if it doesnt work, it wont succeed. if it makes americans lives easier, it will succeed. if it doesnt, it wont, right? all of the score keeping right now in the early stages totally irrelevant. >> i think so. i also think that the sad part of the rollout, besides the screw-ups, is the working poor, the people it was aimed at but road to bus and that do...

About the plight of people on medicaid, was not sponsoring bills before congress, was not trying to get people health care, what happens now is that any part of the bill, any part of the law that can be picked apart to try to destroy it, suddenly the great saviors of the working poor are people on medicaid, people opposed to the law, the fact of the matter is, that is not the animated thing that is making people get up in the morning and go to work against obamacare. its not like you care about ...

Multiply that across over a thousand locations, and theyll provide the same benefit to the environment as over 60,000 trees. thats a trend we can all get behind. welcome back to "the ed show." love hearing from you. all the questions, we have one tonight. courtney says why do republicans think it is okay to victimize the working poor in this country? well, because the working poor just cant fight back at that level. see, the republicans love to pit groups against one another. and if they can g...

>> very quickly, one potential area of bipartisanship is actually both ryan and president obama have proposed support for the earned income tax credit, which is a way to get some support to the working poor. do you think emphasize more to bridge some of the -- >> absolutely. it begins to take those steps towards homeownership which is ultimately how you begin to battle homelessness. when a family that once owned a home, lost their home as a result of the 2008 collapse, it is now trying on move b...

Connection with our cases. >> and is it entirely coincidental, or was there some impetus to the lawsuit and the presidents really making inequality a focus this year? >> the lawsuits were really prompted by the complaints of our clients and the speed with which we were able to investigate their claims. it was coincidence that the complaints were filed on or around the time the president announced hi intentions to change the wage laws. >> tell us a little bit about some of the people youre repres...

Case that everyone is outperforming the mean. >> thats right. >> there are a lot of people making a lot of money, this is definitional, a lot of people making money on wall street who are performing underneath the average of wall street performance. >> yeah. i think a lot of people believe, genuinely believe on wall street if they were to go become teachers theyd be the best teachers in the world, if they had to drive a garbage truck, theyd be the best garbage truck driver. theyre overpaid for w...

Too. as a country, we worship the rich and despise the working poor. we worship the bailed out rich and despise the working poor. >> theres two arguments to be made. ones a matter of simple justice and fairness. i like that because it get my lefty heart all aflutter. the performance and stability of the economy as a whole. i couldnt believe this. this is a new report today from imf, of all people. i remember being in campus in college and protesting the imf for their vision of a neoliberal vast ...

Is also subsidized in that way, too. as a country, we worship the rich and despise the working poor. we worship the bailed out rich and despise the working poor. >> theres two arguments to be made. ones a matter of simple justice and fairness. i like that because it get my lefty heart all aflutter. the performance and stability of the economy as a whole. i couldnt believe this. this is a new report today from imf, of all people. i remember being in campus in college and protesting the imf for th...

First. he tweeted this morning and said simply diagnose pray for me. this is what he did, and a lot of people were touched by his mu milt. not just his words, but hi actions. so i guess the question becomes -- this is so much a part of the political discussion that were having here about how do we address income inequality. what do we do about the poor and working poor, e.j.? is he having an impact on that beyond the church? is this pope making a difference? >> i do think s affected the debate. ...