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Good quality of life. our story hopefully sheds light on them. >> heidi, when we're talking about the narrative of detroit and the problems, there's systemic failures we're looking at. this statistic was staggering, the national institute for literacy says 47% of adults living in detroit are functionally illiterate. that's half the population of the city that's functionally illiterate. there's a problem with education which leads to social mobility and economic success. >> absolutely. that's why problems, the systemic problems in detroit are hard to solve and where you're not hearing them in t...

The educational disparities, doing things like making sure the education is trained towards jobs available and making sure we're putting in places where they can actually be successful in their work, that's how you increase the tax base, that's how you encourage more business to invest inside the area and address the economic disparities mitt romney is talking about without saying if we decrease taxes for the very rich somehow it will trickle down. that experiment has not worked. >> i will try to leave this segment on a high note which is to say that the detroit tigers are in the world series....