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Happy to have that kind of job and it's character building and puts money in their pockets. tell me what you think is wrong with the way he characterized his outreach ors for young people? >> people growing up poor are not suffering from work ethic. i was poor, but i got up at 4:00 a.m. to deliver milk. i do not neat newt gingrich to tell me what it is to have a work ethic. esshe is, saying the poor peopln their schools should be the janitors in their schools so the other children that are not so poor can see them as their s servants. to talk about what his daughter did, she was never a janito...

president obama's finance committee. is it officially a lost decade for the middle class? >> it's certainly a lost opportunity. we've lost ground. and middle class americans are really suffering. >> the top end has done well though. that's where you get this whole political narrative that the middle is suffering at the expense of the top. >> the what's happening right now is we're seeing a transformation or a dramatic change in our economy. we've gone from a manufacturing oriented economy in terms of middle class job opportunities, those jobs are now lost. many of them are lost overs...

>> ron, boys and girls clubs aren't subsidized by the federal government. what should be done at the federal level to change things, to turn those numbers around? >> well, the -- you know, the education on every front involving kids in every front. character building, you know, on every front. but the great thing about the boys and girls club is it exists. they've been doing it for over 100 years, and, you know, if you believe in the things that our country, our society aspires to or purports to aspire to, then you have to believe in education, in character-building, and programs. and the othe...

I dealt with trying to find myself and a lot of the issues that our young girls were facing, that was me. >> shauneika sat with a mentor once a week where they will discuss self-confidence, character building and how to become a leader. >> there's lots of jealousy. >> reporter: why do girls become bullies? it begins in a social setting when girls are trying to figure out who their friends are. >> there's lots of competition. there's lots of sort of struggling to express their own identity. girls often feel helpless and powerless. being aggressive is a way to try to assume power. >> reporter: s...

I dealt with trying to find myself. and a lot of issues that our young girls are facing, that was me. >> reporter: shamika sat with a mentor once a week, over self confidence, character building. why do certain girls like shamika become bullies? the doctor says it begins in a social setting when girls are trying to figure out who their friends are. >> there's lots of competition. there's lots of sort of struggles to express their own identity. girls often feel helpless and powerle powerless, being relationally aggressive is assuming power. >> reporter: shamika faced her own struggles and knows...