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There's a huge base of residents that live there. you know, in my community, alone, we have only 400 units of housing left in sunset park in brooklyn. >> in all of the neighborhood. >> for all of the neighborhood. not for a long ways -- again, not for another ways again. and so it's very important in our community where people are living there and have been there for a long time that they continue to stay. >> i think it highlights the fact right now we have a mismatch in the way the economy works in terms of where jobs are created and affordable homes are made and sometimes engines of job crea...

Removed from this. the hardest thing in the world is to be giving something your all and it's not good enough. and that's what i was experiencing when i was living here. i was giving it my all. working two jobs. and doing the best i could. but this was the place that i came home to with the phone not working from time to time, or the lights not working from time to time. >> maria spent time with texas state senator and gubernatorial candidate wendy davis for a piece that's set to air on wednesday morning the "today" show. davis has an incredible personal story that took her from teen motherhoo...

0 moment on the floor of the united states house of representatives, wherein i watched a c-span live feed and thought, this is what government should look like. i'll bring that to you shortly. tonight we go to galesburg illinois where president obama kicked off his own summer tour of sorts. he gave not one, but two speeches on the economy, beginning with a series of events planned across the country this summer, focusing on how to support an embattled middle class. making clear that he's a man with much less to lose. >> i have now run my last campaign. i do not intend to wait until the next ca...

0 we were contracting by almost 8% in the six months in which he was coming into office. the last quarter of 2008, first quarter of 2009. this president had to move with boldness, swiftness and force to bring us back to growth, to now having more jobs created in the first six months than any first half of the year since 1999. more manufacturing jobs created in over 20 -- since the late 1990s. so we have seen a lot of progress. and we have seen positive things in the economy. but what the president is saying is that the improvement and healing we've seen, it's not good enough, it's not good eno...

0 question. and it is a disappointment, but we can't just be disappointed with it, we have to take action. and the fact is, the president has been able to do significant things in bringing our country back from the brink of depression to the scene of recovery, passing historic health care reform. but the president doesn't want to just bring the economy back to where it was. he wants to bring it back better, and what he was talking about tonight was a longer term trend that too much of the growth we've seen has not strengthened the middle class. we've even seen some hollowing out and weakening ...