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The government to come in and order people to treat their employees right? >> well, not the right way to get things done to get higher wages. you want higher wages because businesses are growing and they want to hire people and they have to pay them more to get good people on, on board. the story that we just heard, the problem i see is not that she doesn't get paid more, at a fast food place is that she lost a job to begin with and had to retreat to a fast food job. to the point about work ethic and et cetera, and fast food, right now, we are at an all-time low with teenagers, about 25% of te...

The government to come in and order people to treat their employees right? >> well, not the right way to get things done to get higher wages. you want higher wages because businesses are growing and they want to hire people and they have to pay them more to get good people on, on board. the story that we just heard, the problem i see is not that she doesn't get paid more, at a fast food place is that she lost a job to begin with and had to retreat to a fast food job. to the point about work ethic and et cetera, and fast food, right now, we are at an all-time low with teenagers, about 25% of te...

What we would be doing is looking at the fact we have bridges literally collapsing. we have roads impassable. we have an infrastructure problem that in the eisenhower era would have been addressed by building a massive highway program that would give people jobs. >> i want to tie this into our next topic because here in the city of new orleans, unemployment is higher than expect. more than half of working age african-american men in this city were unemployed according to the most recent census. now, this is a dramatic increase in unemployment over the past 30 years. but we should point out ove...

Parole enslaved in 1850, decade before the civil war began. and in some major urban areas more than half of working age african-american men now have criminal records and are thus subject to legalized discrimination for the rest of their lives in employment and housing and access to education and public benefits and it's been the war on drugs. and the get tough movement that has quintupled our prison population and astonishingly short period of time. it's a drug war that's waged almost exclusively in poor communities of color even though studies consistently shown for decades that contrary to ...

>> walter cronkite, the anchorman, the apaern people loved him. but did other journalists? an honest look at the life and career of the most trusted man in news. >> hello, everyone. i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. we're going to start the hour with politics. an historic recall election just days away in wisconsin. scott walker in a recall with tom beahr. they drove the efforts angered by walker's push to end collective bargaining rights for workers. we're at the democratic phone bank. first, it's going to be very, very close. >> well, you know, this race really will ...