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Good morning, im melissa harrisperry. Hes a lame duck. He has a congress dominated by the opposing party. But despite rumors of his political demise president obama is kind of on a roll. Since his party lost the senate in november the president has allowed 4 million undocumented immigrants to come out of the shadows. Hes rebuilding relations with cuba. Hes pushing congress to catch up with the rest of the world and force employers to offer paid sick days for their workers and give paid parental leave to federal employees for the first time. Just this week the president s department of justice ...

The program provides students with the skills that are necessary to succeed in college courses in pursuit of a degree or certificate.

You're going to see dental care vouchers, that's the president last night laying out an alternative to something that has fallen out of the package which is a medicare expansion that includes things like dental, vision, and hearing. but also we're seeing in this bill funding for childcare centers, climate change funding, elder care provisions. also drawing your attention to increases to pell grants, because this is, again, another one of the solutions to something that fell off the negotiating table. the president on the campaign trail was outspoken about the fact that he wanted to do a free c...

Cut. that includes free community college program, for example, for two years envisioned by the white house. that appears to be out of this plan. as well as the clean electricity performance program. that is something that would incentivize power plants to switch to clean energy. that was being opposed by senator joe manchin. other programs are also being reduced. the paid family leave from 12 weeks to 4 weeks. looking at the child tax credit, only extended for another year and funding for home care initiatives dropping to $250 billion from $400 billion. this is all about the compromise that i...

And i'm upset about what he said about the city and the way he used the city. but more importantly, and every city has challenges to work on, let me say something about our city. our police officers took this as a very serious hate crime. and they dedicated the resources to deal with it as a hate crime. but then you literally put doubt, not only about the city but also, in addition, what about the person in the workplace facing discrimination? what about the young man dealing with his own sexual orientation and is attacked for it in high school who is now going to doubt whether people believe ...