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There, and we do stay dry as we start to track into the 60s for forecast highs. Heres our radar and satellite view. Whats been happening over the last several hours is clouds have started to kind of blanket the air moving in from the southwest. And theyre going to continue spreading across the board the rest of our Morning Hours, and through the afternoon, mostly cloudy conditions are expected. So heres what were looking at in philly as we track through the next few hours. 50 now goes 60 by 11 00. Peeks of is up out there, but mostly cloudy throughout the afternoon. Notice those winds starting...

Inequality. If you look at what actually happened to people, a lot of what matters, they are aftertax income and weve had substantial tax cuts in middleclass families, make tax cuts permanent that are worth thousands of dollars a year, had additional tax cuts for the areas like the itc and Child Tax Credit and on top of that you have the Affordable Care act. When you take all that into account, the policies of this administration have substantially reduced income inequality relative to what you otherwise would have had. In terms of the underlying trend in the economy i think that challenge is ...

At Andrews Air Force base. In order to meet the debt ceiling. President clinton did at first but the democrats in 1993 and that it again with republicans in 1995. There were seven of these negotiations during bush 41. The reason the debt ceiling is therefore is for the power of the purse. Thats it and youre supposed to have negotiations leading up to it. I think its just slightly inappropriate to say i voted against it but now you guys have to vote for it without negotiating with me. There we go. I will bring it back to the distinction between appropriations and spending versus the debt limit....

That is nonDiscretionary Spending. That is the essence of discretion. If we are going to have an entitlement culture that now funds three quarters almost of the budget spending, and we will say congress has no say at all in funding those three quarters, we push the limit here. It is to favor the ease and convenience of governments. I think we are giving up something in the process. I think it is an inelegant way of doing it, but i think the right path is to have negotiations. The reason you have the debt ceiling and cliffs and any decisionmaking apparatus is to force decisions. Every president...

Alright, well, good morning everyy. Im gonna call the meeting to order here. My name is Mark Trumbull and im the economy editor of the Christian Science monitor. Uh welcome and especially welcome to our guest. Todays guest is liz shuler of the a. F. L. C. I. O. Shes the president of the Labor Federation and were very glad to have you with us again as another Labor Day Weekend rolls around. Weekend rolls around. A little background, president schuler grew up in a union household. Her father was a power lineman and longtime member of the electrical workers local 125 at Portland General Electric ...