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>> get talent, get the skill, contribute to the economy and move up the economic ladder. that's what we need them to do. >> we have to invest in their public education to do that. >> government doesn't create jobs. it is the private sector. >> government does provide six disfor oil company, business subsidies. >> we have to invest in education. >> the government should do that. >> absolutely. but at the state level. let the money follow the kids. right now it doesn't. we don't need more big government in washington, d.c. we need the money following the kids. >> okay. well, i wish we had more t...

Selfless. a rich man is harder to get through the eye of the needle. what kind of nonsense is he spouting? the pope said they have a message for the left and the right. we, our church do not believe in economic power in the hands of the state. markets should function but we have a problem with unbridled capitalism and rising inequality. he is in line with most people around the world. the inequality gap is what everybody is obsessing about and rightly so. >> i think it is because communism is really dead that there is going to be and should be some reaction against what has been happening, whi...

Poverty. and in this issue, you see remarkable activity at a state and local level. as the president has said many times, sometimes change doesn't initiate in washington. change comes to washington. i think we need to change the minimum wage on a national basis so that it doesn't depend on whether you're in kansas or california, that you can benefit from this. and the economy benefits when people have money in their pocket to spend. and we need to eliminate this inequality gap that is remarkably troubling. and that's why i wake up every morning asking, what steps can we take to help workers ma...

Much it's within everybody's grasp, but increasingly the story that we're telling is not everybody can get a chance of grasping the top end of the ladder because of systematic failures, but it's not a discussion we often have. >> by any measure, whether it's income, social services, sadly in all the debates coming up in washington over the next couple of months from here toward how deeply do we cut these things, essentially make it harder and harder to close that inequality gap and have the kind of support that would help anybody coming out of prison or who is a young man in a neighborhood to ...

Bypassed for promotions at her bank because he was a woman. the first bill he signed into law was the lilly ledbetter paycheck fairness act. in terms of what he would do for the future, there's a bill pending in congress that would help close the inequality gap for women. the president firmly stands behind that bill. that also stands in contrast to mitt romney who doesn't support lilly ledbetter. we just learned that. they didn't support lilly ledbetter. and he hasn't taken a position on the pending legislate for paycheck fairness. i think that the american people, women across the country, an...