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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130822:07:48:00

By race and class. for folks that are watching, atlantic yards is one of the most controversial in the last decade, it was fought tooth and nail over. a.c.o.r.n. challenged it and endorsed the development only after concessions were made on precisely this issue which is how much of the housing will be affordable for folks? you get big towers that go up and you get to have members of the city council come can out. with this program, this building is being built under, it s been around for eight years. we don t do any other income support programs like this. if we took food stamps and said instead we ll take steak houses and set aside 15 of their meals and sell them to middle income people and then we say, you ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130822:03:45:00

Adding affordable housing to a market rate building allows the developer, in this case, to get a tax break worth millions of dollars. the irony here is that the people living in those affordable apartments whose homes are designed to integrate the neighborhood will for all intents and purposes be physically segregated from their rich neighbors who live right there in the same building. joining me now is josh barrel, politics editor at business insider and bertha lewis of the association for community organization for reform known as a.c.o.r.n. and founder and president of the black institute. josh, everyone is outraged about the poor door and you say the poor door is a great thing. well, at least i don t think it s a problem. i mean, this policy we have where you try to get some luxury apartments for in this case those who are fairly are poor, often you can qualify for one of these middle income apartments if you make as much as $ed 180,000 a year. in any case they have a lottery and ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130822:03:48:00

Decade, it was fought tooth and nail over. a.c.o.r.n. challenged it and endorsed the development only after concessions were made on precisely this issue which is how much of the housing will be affordable for folks? you get big towers that go up and you get to have members of the city council come can out. with this program, this building is being built under, it s been around for eight years. we don t do any other income support programs like this. if we took food stamps and said instead we ll take steak houses and set aside 15 of their meals and sell them to middle income people and then we say, you know, well, it s so that we don t have this classist system where only rich people eat in fancy restaurants. it would be a crazy way to do nutrition support. please, bertha? this is a bit insulting to say and make those kinds of ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130822:03:54:00

A new study out of the university of new hampshire shows just how deeply inequality is sewn into the fabric of american life. the study says there s a strong negative association between a patient s unemployment and the likelihood of being placed on a waiting list for a kidney transplant. and once on the waiting list the likelihood of receiving a transplant meaning that if you need a kidney, you don t have a job, then you re probably out of luck. oh, well. still with me are josh barrel from business insider, bertha lewis, former ceo of a.c.o.r.n. and now bob woodward, not that bob woodward, the other bob woodward from the university of new hampshire and who helped conduct the research for the study. this study brought me up short and made me say how could this possibly be? walk me through the results. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130821:22:36:00

Been a really pernicious use of the irs. would be to go after political enemies. but the only person who s done that, you ve seen democratic leaning groups or liberal leaning groups complaining they were audited during the bush administration including the naacp. that is closer to the nixonian model than the irs. we saw congressional hearings, now we find out the irs was also looking for successors to acorn. even using those cute little acorns there looking for progressive groups. anyone that looks political. what happened to all of this noise we were hearing on the hill? remember it was elijah cummings that pointed out some time ago if it s being nixonian it s issa. ....

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