When you go to high school, and when you graduate, you are not just getting a high school diploma, you are certified to work. [applause] we have lowered Vocational Education to the seventh grade. It is already done in our state. Secondly, we have to Pay Attention to Early Childhood education. We cannot have people who are extremely poor, where they can not have the kind of development in their brain that they need because as we know, if they dont get it, as they get older, they lose the capacity to do as well as they can do. Early childhood education, Vocational Education. Here is another thing. We have to raise the standards of our Guidance Counselors so that they actually died the students and are not just involved in monitoring the gym or the cafeteria. I think it should be done across the country. We know the end demand in state. Jobs in our we need to be sure be are educated people, k12, for the jobs that exist. A the old days, you could get High School Education, and if he did not do it well, you can get mill or aa still Chemical Plant and support your family. Those jobs dont exist. The k12 system will have to foruce the kids with skills 21st century jobs. That is not something the federal government ought to do. It is something that every School District must do. In addition, we have now unleashed a mentoring program. If you are a business and involved a faithbased organization and agreed to take over a school in the standpoint of mentoring a child, we will give you a three for one match. Why does that matter . In a School District where the businesses have gone in and they are mentoring, they have a 97 graduation rate, mentoring and encouraging children of all income levels. Speaker ryan three principles that we, as conservatives, talk about and act on that are sorely needed here. Number one, federalism. Dissolve powered back to the states and localities of the government closer to the people can govern best. That is what you are talking about here clearly. The second is customize. Individual persons have different problems. Customize eight and aid and support. A liberal philosophy cannot accept that. It is contrary to their view. The third one that we talk about quite a bit, and we practice this in our economic philosophy, but in our social philosophy is how do we measure outcomes . How do we rewire the entire based from an input tas system to focus on results . One of the things i think we is you also have to break up these government monopolies. Governmentollect benefits, but save you go to Catholic Charities or lutheran , or look at America Works a forprofit institution they are in the business of providing this holistic support. They are providing it raised on competing results. Breaking of the provision of services so that it is. Ompetitive getting people out of poverty, tracking them. People rubberstamping through the system, and they go out of business. Y that be appl principle to the space . Gov. Kasich we have taken the welfare operation and put in with job training. We are moving them all into one facility. Know some people as you need to get up to a benchmark. Dore are people that really not know how to set an alarm, get up to work here and we have benchmark and a thes tough requirement that you must return. You cannot just walk away. This is an amazing and comprehensive reform in the state. Br making progress on it, but some of the welfare departments dont want to do it. Im telling them, if you dont will privatizei it. Skills at we need help skills out, help skills grow. Your idea that any idea is acceptable. The first principle if this idea that we have reached in this country that the thatmoney you spend on, is evidence that you care about it. To spendse here is not more money, but does it adjust the underlying problem . Our safety net in america does not cure poverty. It treats the symptoms of it, it does not cure it. The only cure is a good paying job. The second point is the answer does not always lie in a government agency. Foring up these funds competition, for innovative programs that can provide a solution to a problem. This is a huge impediment in higher education. Today, you can only get a fouryear degree from an accredited college. Meanwhile, we have dozens of highquality learning programs that you can learn in a selfdirected way. You can get credit through work experience, military experience, life experience, selfdirected online course work. You should be able to package that all into the equivalent of a degree or Certificate Program and expand an outdated and crediting model a crediting model. [applause] speaker ryan this is the fight that is coming. We will cross the coat and attack the root causes of poverty. On all of these monopolies, the. Tatus quo monopolies what do you think is the key for ,aking on these monopolies decentralizing power, and injecting competition for results so we can actually crack this code . Sen. Rubio i think it begins by convincing people that you care about what they are going through. People say that conservatives dont want to fund our agency the way it has been funded traditionally, that means they dont care about you. That means that the work is done it is so critical. If you dont talk about what people are going through, they think you dont care about. Eople like them it begins by dodging that we do have a problem in america, there are people being left behind, and we have to fix that problem. We cannot be the great country that we want to be if we do not solve that problem. Reason why we are changing is because what we are doing now does not work. What we are doing now is leaving people behind. What we are doing now is trapping people. What we are doing now is condemning a sevenyearold child to not be able to break the cycle of poverty that they inherited from their parents and grandparents because they are condemned to failing schools because of all of the underlying issues in their lives not being addressed. The monopolies exist for the purpose of existing, for theetrating perpetuating status quo. It is a hard fight, but a fight we must have because america is special. It is a nation where everyone can go as far as their talent will take them. If we lose that, we stop being a special country. [applause] gov. Kasich i will tell you. I think, you are right. You have to establish the credibility. All the efforts we have made, not just to grow the economy, but make sure people dont get left behind. Was unveiling my tax cut you know where i did it . At the annual meeting of the Community Action agency. That is not a place where a republican typically goes to announce tax cuts. What i told them is i helped you , but you have to understand, we have to create jobs, so i have a tax cut plan that will create jobs, and i expect you to supportive. They did. I think that when you have resulted show people that you toe, people are willing change, to make changes. Bureaucracy is another deal, and you have to sometimes take them on. Give them a chance, but if they dont have any choice. Sen. Scott they are truly the warheads, in my opinion. There has to be a philosophical discussion of where we are in this country, and how we get to the next level of opportunity. To make people believe that the federal government is the first place you go when you are in need, and not the last place. Majore these debates on the minimum wage. Frankly, the poorest workers lose one we increase that minimum wage. Without the access to the skill set that you typically get in entry level jobs, you are stuck. You are taking wrongs out of the latter. Sen. Rubio that is exactly right. The first thing we have to explain is what Everyone Wants is a country where everyone has a chance to go as far as their talent and work will take them. The impediments that people face are different. One of them is skills. You talked about the minimum wage. ,n this era of automation minimum wage is a threat to jobs. Most of the National Fast food chains will be automated at some point. You will only make that happen faster. The jobs for creating the machines pay, but you have to have the skills. If you dont have a System Training people with those skills, they will be left behind. That is what we are facing today. A dramatic transformation of our economy. We are living through an Economic Transformation on par ,ith the Industrial Revolution but it is happening every five years. It threatens to leave people behind if we do not equip people with the skills they need to succeed in the new economy. We are a country with a retirement system signed in the 1930s, poverty plans designed in the 1960s, Energy Plants from the 1970s, and nothing looks like it did five years ago. We have an outdated government that is more interested in protecting the status quo than modernize our policies to address the challenges of the 21st century. That is a huge issue in this campaign. [applause] speaker ryan one of the things that i found so profound is using and like my mom says, i have two years and one mouth, using them in that proportion. Seeing these incredible stories of people overcoming amazing adversities. That is the best lesson there is. Seeing what other people have done. Our job, as policy makers, is to get behind them so we can empower more. Who is a person that you know that fell on hard times, was in destitution, went through a struggle, and really succeeded, really flourished, that found their potential . Who is a person that did that, and why do you think they made it . New kasich i have two in hampshire. In 1998 or 90 99, i wrote a book he read was a story of ordinary people who do extraordinary things. One of the people in the book was a woman who went to university. She and her mother lived in a car. Her mother was an addict. I met her at princeton. I dont even know how you apply to princeton when you live in a car because you are homeless. I had not seen her. She traveled with me on the book tour. I had not seen her in 20 years. I saw her in New Hampshire. She is now running one of the National Antidrug programs in america. The other day, a woman who had been human traffic to. She busted out of it. She is now running Human Trafficking on the National Lever in New Hampshire. What happened . The lord has a lot of miracles, and we are not running out of them. There is one out there for someone else. It,is determination, gr not allowing yourself to be defined as a victim. When we were kids, our parents taught us, if you get knocked down, you get up again. I happen to believe that the power of faith makes a difference. You were created for a purpose. The lord expects you to carry out a mission to help heal the world. When i looked at these two women, they were miracles. I pointed to everyone in the room, if you dont believe in near goes look at these peoples lives. They are very inspiring. The stories go on and on. It is always great to put them together and tell people that they can be what they are meant to be, and it raises all of our games and gives us hope and determination and love. Sen. Rubio in the course of my the campaign, i have interacted with so many people. My son has a sports team that is facing extraordinary challenges. People who have worked for me. The one story that i always tell of people who influenced me is the story of my parents. My parents were both born in cuba. My father when he was nine years old, his mother died. He had to stop going to school. He had to work at nine years of age. The bottom line is he never went back to school and worked for the next 70 years of his life. In 1956, my parents came here. It was the only place in the world where people like them could have a chance. They barely spoke the language, didnt know anyone, and had no real education. It was hard. A jobtruggled to find that they could do, my father in particular struggled. They took whatever job they could find. They persevered. Let me tell you what happens less than 10 years later. My father found a job, working his way up to being a banquet miami beach. My parents were never rich, never famous. My parents were successful because working as a bartender and a maid, just a few decades removed from the difficult circumstance, they owned a home in a stable neighborhood, they retired with dignity and security and left their children better off than themselves. The thing i love about this country is this is only place in the world where they could have done that. It is the story of millions of people including people sitting here today and on the stage. We are all one generation or two removed from that story. That is what makes us different and special. We are at risk of losing. If we ever lose that, we risk stopping being an exceptional country. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we have about 22 seconds left. [laughter] gov. Kasich i guess we were out wore at theers protesters. Sen. Scott lets not encourage them. You have been a fantastic audience. [applause] we have a really special treat from 1 00 to 2 00. We have morning joe. Does anyone watch morning joe . We have joe scarborough. They will be speaking with speaker ryan and senator scott and some other leaders on issues facing poverty like arthur books. They will be up your 1 00. We have a 20 minute break. When everyone paused one moment. This will be my last chance to do this. I want to recognize my mom, kemp who is down here. [applause] one of the things that my dad said when he was passing away my dad had melanoma. He dealt with it for five months that he knew about it. He had a longtime before that. He told all of us that his legacy, where he cared about was not having politicians talk about him, having people think about tax cuts im sure he would like that what he cared about was that his legacy would be his family. Its a privilege, and honor, on behalf of the kemp family to welcome you to our family. Y mom we all love our moms we love you, mom. Im so grateful that you all what be here to see civil competition of ideas could look like. We need citizens that are willing to engage in discussion without shouting, without being rude. We want people to engage. Like i said, go to kemp up, and whatever you are thinking, we want to engage you with folks who are making important decisions on the issues that we care about. Thank you so much. Thank you for joining our family. Another break. [applause] we are alive today on cspan at the Camp Foundation form camKemp Foundation forum. You just heard from john kasich and marco rubio. We would like to get your thoughts on what you have seen so far from the republican candidates who have appeared at this event in South Carolina. The numbers are on your screen listenerscspan radio , democrats, call us at 2027488920. Republicans, 2027488921. We are in a lunch break now. Event to continue with the pound discussion in about 20 minutes or so. Until then, we will take your calls and tweets as well. You can tweet us at cspanwj or leave a facebook comment on our facebook page. Kyle, you are up in San Francisco on the republican line. Caller thank you for covering the forum and taking my call. I wish the forum would have a q a. I was surprised we did not hear too much about immigration. I heard rubio mentioned it once it once or mention twice. I would ask him why he supported a bill. Poverty and the issues facing Everyday Americans today many jobs have been lost due to the massive influx of illegal aliens and foreign labor being imported into the country, as marco rubio is fine with importing into the country. It was a big elephant in the room. I wish donald trump would have come today. Q ash there was a because it would have been a Good Opportunity for the audience to ask the questions that needed to be asked. Mentioned donald trump not be in attendance today. A number of candidates did not make it. Ted cruz was not there. Carly fiorina was scheduled to be at the event but missed the plane and was not able to attend. We will cover donald trump later today in iowa. E has a rally at 5 00 we will go next to shelley in pennsylvania on the republican line. Toler i have been listening all candidates for many months now and it is hard for me to understand why the American People are not looking more at donald trump. E is a businessman he has friends throughout the different countries. He has not politician. I believe this is what we need to run our america. The call. K you for janet in tacoma, washington, democratic caller. Caller yes. Im janet. I listened to the republicans today. I think that marco and john. Asich have very good ideas i think it would be really good if they became the president. I was thinking maybe john would be a good one. Im a democrat. Ive always voted with the democrats. They have never let me down. I love hillary. I know she would do everything for the world. She is so intelligent. There is man never anything thae does not know about. When she first ran years ago, i wanted her. Clinton so well. When clinton went into office, we were broke, we had no social security. He pulled us out of it. She was helping every bit of the way. Of hillarying clinton, we will cover her event tomorrow in manchester, New Hampshire. She is expected to receive the endorsement from planned parenthood. We will be live at four clock eastern time on sunday as cspans road to the white house coverage continues. Back to your calls now to get your thoughts on the republican President Shall field and some of the candidates that you may have heard from today. Ron joins us. Go ahead. The minorwas one of organizers of this poverty form. Orum. I just want to say that the role of evidence raised prevention policies and strategies to help offset poverty and reduce the bad effects of poverty are underutilized both in the private and the governmental sectors. I would encourage candidates on both sides of the aisle in the president ial as well as the congressional races to draw on the sides that we know to prevent things like addiction, school failure, difficulty in. Etting jo