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Unwinding and inner history of the new america." and he writes this, in part. no one can say when the unwinding began, when the coil that held americans together in its secure and sometimes stifling grip first gave way. like any great change, the unwinding began countless times, countless ways and at some moment the country always the same country crossed a lane and became different. if you were born around 1960 or afterward, you would spend your adult life in the vertigo of that unwinding. you watched structures that had been in place before your birth collapse like pillars of salt across the...

Class divide is a challenge to americans' economic competitiveness. >> and governor, my mother, born in detroit, grew up at a time when a middle-class job in detroit was possible, that you could really think about sustaining a family on. >> well, that's the whole point. is what is -- if we want congress to act on anything, it is on a strategy to keep and create middle-class jobs in america. you're right. but we are seeing the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and that large scope of poor, the group is getting larger. so how do we create, in a global economy, middle-class jobs in america?...

America's greatest 21st century challenge. it changes the world in which we live, with new competitors all across the globe. and within the changing demographics of america. and so we had substantial progress in the middle of the 20th century when it came to closing the class divide. we've departed from that. what i'm concerned with is we in many, many polite circles do not think that that class divide is a challenge to americans' economic competitiveness. >> my mother was born in detroit, when a middle class job in possible that you could sustain a family on. >> that's the whole point is, if ...

Landscape. you think about this concept of whether this is american decline or something much more temporary and narrow. >> neither. it's not american decline. it's class. we've had a lot of discussion about race on the show today. to me the class divide is greater than the education divide. you're not seeing decline, you've got intact family structures, rising incomes, you're fine. if you're in the lesser class, you're seeing collapsing social structures, 70% of african-american kids born out of wedlock, high percent of poor white kids. you see this collapse of order on the bottom. if you wer...

And the rights that we have given to figure out whether or not that's affecting the general population more so than just the people who are suffering that, like trying to get them to take their medication. >> brian: lot of pressure on bruce willis. we saw that arnold schwarzenegger's movie bombed and stallone's movie bombed. >> steve: it looks like it's going to be good. opens on valentine's day. straight ahead. >> brian: a nice heart warming date movie. >> steve: forget sharing the wealth. coming up, we've got four simple ways to narrow the class divide, like getting rid of the unpaid interns...