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Make panties, okay to buy panties that say i dare you? is it okay? >> i have to say, i really think that young women are one of the great success stories of modern america. when you're looking at outcomes of high school graduation, college completion, young women are making tremendous strides. they are actually really leaving men behind in the dust. i think trusting young women to make reasonable sound choices about the clothes they wear is generally the best way to go. when you trust young people, they will tend to reward that trust. so i think that stigmatizing this kind of clothing, fixatin...

Are one metric for measuring progress and they measure the progress that records how you will do on the next test you take, but the grade point average and the noncognitive skills like being able to think and reflect on the learning go to college completion and higher learning, so we have to align our schools around more complicated metrics and these are not impossible things to measure, but it feels really important, and by the way, we are failing the rich kids, too, because we are not creating the thinkers and not looking for the next entrepreneurial skills, but look looking for the right an...

We want the same shot that all americans have or had and, you know, our policymakers are not doing enough right now to really address that. and, you know, frankly, it's partly our responsibility as young people to actually be leaders of change, to talk about the issues that we're facing and also to put forth specific ideas and policies and solutions that we think can address things like college completion or the lack of health care for young people. >> and even beyond that, i mean, don't you think, amy, you can answer this first. you can both answer this question. it's unfair ultimately for us...

Terms of making schools more competitive. this program initiative, the president just put in the last year-and-a-half and got through congress. a lot of money going to schools all around the country. but also, the president wants a heavy emphasis in this speech on actual college completion. he's going to talk about how one of the problems is a lot of people start college in the united states, but don't finish it. and so he wants to attack that in a number of levels. first of all, dealing with making sure community colleges are strong, it's not counting on all of the major, you know, ivy league...

Associate degrees. from number one where we were for a very long time. what do you attribute that and how do we turn that around? >> this is where the president is showing great leadership. i think frankly as a country we've gotten complacent and just a generation ago we did lead the world in college completion. as you said today, we're 12th. we have to move from 40% of our adults with a college diploma to 60%. the president set that goal by 2020 and we're doing what we can to get there p.m. increasing financial aid and putting money to increase grants and increasing the tax credit for familie...