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Cash. a big huge payday. >> all right. let's have a look at our categories. economy, inequality, why we must raise the minimum wage, poverty. >> how much money are we playing for here? >> it doesn't matter. the question is moot. among the world's rich nations america is tied for last in class mobility. no matter how much you make from this game show, you'd still be in the same class your parented birthed you into. half of the wealth is into the gold plated bank accounts of the richest 1%. the world's richest 85 people have as much of the world's poorest 3.5 billion. this extreme level of inequ...

Is, inequality, voting rights. north carolina's moral mondays and florida's dream defenders and the dream nine immigration protesters but this has to be a multiracial movement as the civil rights movement was because the assault on hispanic rights, gay rights and women's rights is all an attempt to push back toward a world where straight white men held 100e% o all power. we must make the movement into activist work as well as personal and political day-to-day work. so many of us are doing that, be advancing the dream in our daily lives, using opportunities to advance our families, our race our...

Billions, if not trillions of dollars. if we could end that cycle of poverty, we'd be much better off economically. but he's not really carrying that message in these speeches. >> howard, i very much look toward to seeing that huff post series. >> it's there now. >> okay, great. i'll check it out as soon as i get off the show. i've got to get off the show first, right? but harvard this week -- >> not necessarily. >> i'll look at it at a break. the important things first. so this week harvard published a map of class mobility potential by region. >> fascinating. >> and the map was very interest...

I have no problem making that have an economic and socioeconomic dimension. my fundamental contention is that you don't need to blow up the bridge of racial inclusion in order to also embrace the socioeconomic differences that we see and i speak from my own experience. i was a person of very modest means when i applied to college. in fact, i think my classmates unloaded property worth more value than my family earned in a year or that we lived on. when i got to college, what distinguished me was not my socioeconomic differences. i had interactions on the soccer field and other places where peo...

April? >> it comes down to iowa where we saw many of these issues come into play versus new hampshire. typically south carolina has j" issues were key, but with the current unemployment rate in th economy is lieskly to be morn important and the question of whether or not we are on a level playing field, whether or not we are still in a country where there's class mobility where you can be born poor and become wealthy and be born rich and be poor. rich kids stay wealthy and poor kids become poor adults. >> it's been interesting to see how it's playing out. we expect this from president obama, b...