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Hispanic 6.2%. black 5.6%. federal workforce. >> can i submit to you. >> lawyer an i keep going for a second leo. you asked for some legal data some legal stuff. so give for a second. federal workforce. 18.4%. black. white 64.6. american-indianian 1.6, asian 5.8%. hispanic 8.6%. >> i can play the numbers game all day long. hong on. one second. >> here's the point i like those numbers. because thei white number is disproportionally higher than the actually numbers. and. >> so that's what we're getting at. >> come on? >> thistt administration does he people of color. >> laura: those numbers were...

Poverty line. home ownership, look at it, for after scan americans, 47.4%, and look at the numbers. household computers under 50% for blacks, 64.6% for whites. both of the numbers actually shocked me. but you talk about financial literacy, it's literacy in general, you have the right tools to retrain and find out where the jobs are and access community resources and get out there and do something. >> remember, i was doing a workshop and we were working with some individuals who were formerly incarcerated and one of them held me behind the workshop and he pulled me into a room with a computer i...

Home and 64.6% of white households do. the numbers track similarly for hispanics. what's responsibility for that wide disparty? >> you've got long-term historic discrimination and a legacy of slavery and segregation. you would probably mark progress since the 1960s. what's important now is for the nation to embrace the idea while closing the gaps is not only good for african-americans but also good for the nation at large. when we have unemployed people, we also have people who could be contributing to the overall economy. that's why we strongly support a robust jobs initiative by the presiden...