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Education and we can get these folks off the streets and in time we can have the great society that we're all entitled to. >> president johnson believed that in order for our nation to reach its full potential everyone must have the opportunity to contribute. with that goal in mind, government assistance programs like job corps, food stamps, medicare and headstart and other programs were ushered in, and in those years infant mortality has gone down and college tuition rates have gone up, and poverty rates have diminished, but not disappeared and the critics say it is not the government's role ...

>> the mississippi i perceived is not the mississippi that i've had in my head. i was surprised how sold i was off the bat. if you want to write, come to oxford. >> you think that's true? well, apparently, yes. >> like that line in barton fink, you can't throw a rock without hitting a writer? then he says, do me a favor, throw it hard. >> it's easy to look at mississippi and go that just happens down there, so we're good, our hands are clean. it's a totally misperceived place. when i came, i fell in love with the place. i never thought that i would. there's something to it, but you can't put y...

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I was surprised how sold i was off the bat. if you want to write, come to oxford. >> you think that's true? well, apparently, yes. >> like that line in barton fink, you can't throw a rock without hitting a writer? then he says, do me a favor, throw it hard. >> it's easy to look at mississippi and go that just happens down there, so we're good, our hands are clean. it's a totally misperceived place. when i came, i fell in love with the place. i never thought that i would. there's something to it, but you can't put your finger on what it is. >> what it is can be found in the dark spaces across t...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com america -- the land of opportunity, a country built on hope and the chance of success, on the american dream. but is the dream as we once knew it dying? america's middle class is quickly vanishing, and now the richest 1% of the population holds more wealth than the bottom 90%. >> this is the defining challenge of our time, making sure our economy works for every working american. >> maybe one day soon real change will actually be made in our nation's capitol, but what happens in the meantime? is there something that can do to help close the gap? is there...