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Of the peace corps. a grass roots movement fighting for the communities it serves, zach is the executive director and friend of the show tommy veeder is a crusader in their effort. break it down why we have to have americorps. >> thanks for talking about an issue that is not always on the front page of the papers and is critical to communities that are underserved. what we're talking about kids who take a very small stipend to do disaster relief in places like colorado or joplin missouri or after hurricane sandy and and they give back to their communities. they serve for a year. and it's a cri...

That takes it down to 11.8%. compare it to the national average of 7.8%. the trend may head in the right direction, but our next guest's work is far from done. young people are ready, willing and able to give back to the country. they need the opportunity to do it. >> i just always assumed work really hard, get an undergraduate degree, go to grad school if you need to and it will open up more doors. it didn't turn into that. >> the problems of our society are so big and so complex right now. it can be overwhelming. >> as a country we have things that need doing, and we have young people who ca...

Don't want to limit conversations to what the fed is doing or isn't doing because we need a lot more than that. >> i actually want to double down even more on the american jobs act. he should go before the country and say we need a million youth jobs. and they can do it through ameri-corps. they approved 250 thou. a lot of which hasn't been funded. there's a lot of work to do. so a million youth jobs and then another million on top of the million in the americans job act in public sector, wpa, direct-hiring style jobbings. republicans woent like that, but the american people will. obama needs ...

House. the tea party numbers don't add up. we'll talk about that later in the show with somebody who will defend them. we on this show are going to try to do something with every politician who comes before us. we're going to say, name your cut. we're tired of flim-flam, tired of smoke and mirrors. we're going to say, show us the number, show us how you're going to do it. >> this should be interesting, a week and a half before the midterm election, we're going to force people to say, okay, i'm going to cut entitlements. >> they're going to have to name the cut. the interesting thing is we star...

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