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Get built, you've got a migrant labor workforce with no rights and 120 degrees daytime temperatures. >> yeah, there are rules in place, about the temperature when laborers are allowed to be working on these sites, rules about how many days a week they can work. we know that these rules are often flouted, however. and you have coffins coming home every day, more than a worker per day on average is dieing in this tiny, tiny country. we're talking about 280,000 citizens, 1.4 million foreign workers. and that's -- those are the construction laborers. there are a lot of domestic workers as well fro...

>> yeah, there are rules in place, about the temperature when laborers are allowed to be working on these sites, rules about how many days a week they can work. we know that these rules are often flouted, however. and you have coffins coming home every day, more than a worker per day on average is dieing in this tiny, tiny country. we're talking about 280,000 citizens, 1.4 million foreign workers. and that's -- those are the construction laborers. there are a lot of domestic workers as well from south asia. >> just say that again. one coffin coming home every day. >> there is more than one lab...

Get built, you've got a migrant labor workforce with no rights and 120 degrees daytime temperatures. >> yeah, there are rules in place, about the temperature when laborers are allowed to be working on these sites, rules about how many days a week they can work. we know that these rules are often flouted, however. and you have coffins coming home every day, more than a worker per day on average is dieing in this tiny, tiny country. we're talking about 280,000 citizens, 1.4 million foreign workers. and that's -- those are the construction laborers. there are a lot of domestic workers as well fro...

Skeptical how things like this is going to happen. you have to realize, tying a rating system to what aid is allocated would require congressional approval. >> there has to be some combination of them using their endowment and maybe -- i don't know, some way of using that to help the kids. >> i think if like nyu's constantly put down lower because of how high the tuition is it might be a kick in the butt for them and other universities as well. >> reporter: so holding universities and colleges sort of holding their feet to the fire, brianna and ivan is the idea that president obama wants to mo...