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States. this ismy p michigamichigan, wi minnesota say the committeecono improved. a fourth say it's not improved. what's breaking through? >> i don't really think the big gdp number that we got today is breaking through in the way that trump and the white house would like it to because we just have this long term structural inequality problem in america. people understand that in the form of their paychecks in they hear gdp is going up 4%. they hear the stock market is going up big time. they recognize their paycheck in real terms has been pretty flat. that doesn't mean people aren't benefitti...

Benefits that a lot of us do. they don't get parental leave, sick leave, bereavement leave. until a few months ago at her company she made a change that cost millions of dollars and now she's calling out corporate america. >> our company wouldn't exist and wouldn't be around without our warehouse employees and our call center employees. these employees, not just at rent the runway, but at tens of thousands of other companies throughout the company are treated unequally. >> you write in this opinion piece -- i inadvertently created classes of employees, and by doing so, had done my part to cont...

Uk to the united states, the income inequality issue pops up in each of the areas. in each of the areas, there were worlds of excess supply. we're in this battle right now that's going on between if united states and china, and this is a fundamental problem. we're living in the world of excess supply, and that's breeding the income inequality. >> i would argue that on top of that, this is actually a very simple question. there's no question that the tax cut exacerbated the inequality problem at least initially and directly by cutting the taxes the most on those at the top of the scale. that's ...

It is not like he just started yesterday. doesn't he get some credit? >> sure he gets some credit. look, going back to the world economic forum, they agree the global economy is seeing a recovery and, of course, any u.s. economic growth is good for that global economy. but the world economic forum, the forum that president trump just left, issued a report, i don't know if the president bothered to read it, that shows that there are still major downside risks including widening inequality, particularly in advanced economies. it is very positive that economic growth is picking up. but we need to...

Care, if you get a job you get paternal and maternal leave and you get job retraining. because america doesn't offer those things, if you are low-income or unemployed in america, you are substantially worse off than the rich. i will never say it's bad to be rich. i love the fact that people can aspire to be billionaires in america and so should we all. but we do have an inequality problem that this tax code doesn't actually address. i think that's the point here. katon, i'm certainly not against people being rich. i'm not even against corporate tax cuts or tax cuts for the wealth wealthy. why ...