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stay away from my kind of damp area or wooded area, stay in the sun, and always tuck in your pants into your socks. it may not look good, but it protects you. >> that does it for us. >> thank you for watching "housecall" here every sunday on fox. the number of unaccompanied minors coming to the u.s. illegally has tripled in the last three years. where are they going, how long will they stay, and what is the administration doing about a crisis they say it provoked? also -- >> we're using missile defense to protect our civilians and they're using civilians to protect their missiles. >> the ongoing battle against israel and hamas. it's warning civilians to take shelter rather than be used as shields as casualties mount in gaza. president netanyahu mounts his
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speech as peace for israel. the government is promised tons of trillions in benefits it cannot pay for, meaning beneficiaries get taxes meant for the young. we'll tell a story meant only for this hour. america's news headquarters live from the nation's capitol starts now. >> it is a very large amount of money, and as you analyze it, very little of it is for border security. and i think until he gets realistic about the problem and how you deal with the problem, and it is a border security issue. >> texas governor rick perry and texas representative michael mccall, fox news sunday yesterday, aren't the only ones who think president obama's request to congress for $3.7
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billion to handle thousands of children headed for the border is mishandled. we have a look at how the crisis is being handled in washington and how some solutions, lawmakers say, will fix it. steve? >> reporter: texas governor rick perry is renewing his call for the national guard troops on the southern border to help stem the tide of child immigrants there. the governor met with president obama last week in texas, and the governor said he appreciated having some time with the president to explain the situation and talk about the issue. perry, who notified the president by letter two years ago that this very crisis was brewing, said help is badly needed for the overworked border patrol agents dealing with the current crisis. >> it's important to do that because this flood of children is pulling away the border patrol from their normal duties of keeping bad people, keeping the drug cartels, they're being distracted, so that i will suggest to you is a very obvious reason that those national guard troops could come play an
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important role. >> reporter: perry also said the president should have visited the border during his visit to texas last week, and even some democrats agree. but democrats also point out the president's hands are tied by a law passed in 2008 that guarantees central american children the right to an immigration hearing when they cross the u.s. border. >> republicans keep saying, well, we can't fix the immigration issue because we don't trust the president to enforce the law. and then when the president actually follows the law in 2002 and 2008, the very law that republicans -- that was signed by president bush, they say, well, he should do something different. >> reporter: the obama white house is pushing for changes to that 2008 law to give them more flexibility. meantime, an estimated 52,000 central american children have crossed the border illegally since october of last year, and that influx continues. jim? >> thanks very much, steve. so what does the $3.7 billion the president is requesting include? mark vacorian with the center
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for immigration studies joins me now with a closer look. mark, before we get to the details of this, let me ask you this. what would prompt families in central america to scrape up what may be their life savings to send their children on a dangerous journey for hundreds and hundreds of miles in hopes they could get into the u.s.? >> there's two things. first of all, they have to want to leave. clearly, it's a poor and disorderly place. most of the world is. but what's important is the last thing that you mentioned, in the hopes of actually succeeding. and that is this president's five-year track record of basically not enforcing immigration laws, and a whole variety of areas has sent word back that if you want to get in, get in now. they're letting people go even if you flag down the border patrol. they'll take you into custody, give you a hot meal, give kids shots if they need them, and then they deliver you free of charge to your relatives. >> some of these people are turning themselves in to the
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border control. >> they're flagging them down. i sent a team a couple weeks ago to south texas, and people are going across on jet skis or rafts or whatever it is, depending on what the situation is, and then they're wandering around looking for border patrol agents to surrender themselves to. >> children have been coming for years but in smaller numbers. in 2011, you had a little over 15,000, almost 16,000 kids who came across. in 2012 -- these are fiscal years -- 24,400 came over. in fiscal year 2013, 38,759, and in fiscal year 2014 so far, and we're not even to the end of the year yet, we've got 52,193. now, why the sudden surge? are conditions that much worse in central america, or have the recent policies of the administration, as you suggested, held out the promise that if you get here, you're good. >> it's clearly the administration's policies.
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i mean, like i said, things are lousy in central america. they were lousy before, they're lousy now, and they're probably going to be lousy next year, too. my people went down and talked to illegal immigrants at the bus station. the border patrol just lets them go into the bus station. they said, why did you come? they said, well, things are lousy in our country and we heard from our relatives they'll just give us a piece of paper if they catch us and let us go. that's what they're doing, which the papers, that are really summons to appear in court, just tell them to stay in the united states. so they're calling home when they get to houston or wherever, hey, fellows, it's true. it's not a lie, it's not a rumor. they gave us a piece of paper. come on, because they can't keep this going forever. they've got to change their minds at some point. >> how long could this process take once they get here? >> it could take years. it depends on what the story is. say an illegal immigrant, young
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person, comes in, is smuggled in. even if he has family here, if he has some of these activist groups say, okay, we'll have you apply for political asylum, it could drag out for years. >> let me ask you for a breakdown in the numbers. you've looked at the 3.7 billion. you say about half of that is just for resettlement, not to increase border enforcement, but to resettle these people. >> right, about half the money of 3.7 billion, about half of that goes to the department of health and human services to literally resettle illegal immigrants in the united states. that's not enforcement in any way. in fact, even a significant share of the enforcement money is really just money going to the immigration authorities to help bus people around for health and human services to resettle them. so very little over this is actually for enforcement. >> just a few seconds left. what can happen now between the congress and the president? is there any chance that they can agree on something to make this better? >> well, maybe. the president ultimately has to
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be the one to decide, but what congress might be able to insist on is some strings onto this money. if we're going to give you this money, you have to include these pro-enforcement elements. i don't know if they'll do it, but they at least can do that. >> michael, thank you so much. now we have signs of what could be attacks on day 6 of israel's defense on gaza. thousands of palestinians are fleeing the northern part of the gaza strip after israel drops leaflets warning them to come out. it comes after israel takes its first ground action on gaza, performing a brief ground attack. we have john for the details. john? >> reporter: what we're seeing at this point is numerous action already. rockets were launched behind me here, maybe about a mile, some of it issued by israel's defense
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system. we also heard israeli vessels targeting what appeared to be that location. last night that area was hit hard by those israeli commandos, israeli special forces as we know now. there was intense fire targeting hamas locations. it started in small fire and intensified into heavy artillery and then numerous air strikes. at one point we thought we were caught in the crossfires. there was a stream of tracers, some of which went over our heads at one point, and i'm just going to keep my eyes open. i'm hearing what sounds like a fighter coming in, and usually when you hear that sound, not too long after you see and hear the air strike. now, as you mentioned, yesterday and also today, the israeli military has been warning people in the northern part of gaza here and also gaza city to seek refuge, to seek shelter because these air strikes and also the ground campaign is likely to continue throughout the evening now into the early morning
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hours, day 6 going into day 7. earlier today we went to one of the shelters set up at a school here in gaza city. we're hearing another explosion. and we talked to some other people there and just got an idea of the conditions. here's what we saw. take a look. this is one of the classrooms where all these families are staying. they're sleeping on and resting on anything they can, be it a carpet, a mat. they also brought whatever they could possibly carry. clothing, food, any personal or valuable items. i'm sitting here with this man who brought his family, including his baby. what would you like to tell our viewers, people who are watching this? >> translator: i am telling the world, what are you waiting for to stop this? why are you waiting until a million people are killed here? >> reporter: okay, we just saw another rocket launch just northeast of our location here, this following several other
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rockets that were fired targeting israel and cannon fire that we continue to hear, a steady stream of cannon fire offshore. bottom line, jim, i think as of now, we're going into the evening here in gaza. this is most likely what we've seen the last six days going to intensify. we'll keep you posted. jim? >> thanks very much, john. another worry for israel, iran's nuclear capability. on knfox news sunday, president benjamin netanyahu warning that anything that doesn't destroy israel's program would be catastrophic. secretary john kerry is in austria at this hour with other world powers to try to hammer out a world agreement with iran ahead of a deadline just a week ago. legal a leland vittert is here. >> they disagree a lot, and the deal to extend the deadline for more negotiations rather than an
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actual deal on iran's nuclear program. secretary of state john kerry joined foreign ministers for the talks, and he plans to meet with the iranian foreign minister sometime tonight. the talks essentially revolve around how much of iran's nuclear capability remains intact, and kerry is less than optimistic about bridging those divides. do they destroy their centrifuges? did they simply mothball them? did they hand it over or simply put them away? they said it is only for peaceful purposes only, but kerry didn't buy that, saying, hence, we are where we are today. in the middle of this, israel, who has all but promised to take action, is saying the nuclear program is a sham. >> i will commit to everything and anything that would provide
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credible assurance for the international community that iran is not seeking nuclear weapons. because we don't see any benefit. >> it's a joke. of course they're seeking nuclear weapons. you can invest hundreds of billions of dollars for what? >> while the iranians are certainly the most vocal about a nuclear iranian program, they don't have a vote in the talk, so even if there is a deal after this possible extension, it still opens the door for an israeli military attack. jim? as the immigration crisis continues to heat up, fresh allegations in the obama administration is secretly placing immigrant children in two states without letting the local authorities know. and hillary clinton seems to continue to have problems relating to people on one specific issue. coming up, we'll discuss what it is and how much a danger her
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>> until we read it in sanscrit, she has not fully sounded the horn. she's out there and she wants you to know that it's cool that she made, remember, $155 million is the estimate for the personal wealth accrued by the former president and the former first lady since leaving office on top of a quarter billion dollars for their foundation, which is not exactly the most transparent entity in the history of accounting. she has struggled to talk about this because she has struggled with this very issue of how did you get the money? where did the dough come from? and she always said we worked hard, we worked hard, we worked hard for the money. and people said, doing what? talking? riding on planes? having books ghost written for you? >> and there is an explanation
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for that where she takes a little bit of a stance for president obama on income. she understood why people were bothered when she makes $250,000 an hour for a speech. she says, i can understand that, but that's never been the crux of the concern in our country, because we've always had people who did better than other people. that's just accepted. the problem spois people on the bottom and the middle class no longer feel like they have the opportunity to do better. the notion that that's just accepted differs substantially from what president obama has to say. >> she's talking like a dag gone republican there. essentially, mitt romney's argument was, when he was running for president, she is suffering a lot of the same stumbles that romney did talking about her fortune, which is, it's okay that people are rich as long as people who are at the bottom of the ladder feel like
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immigrant children in their communities without telling them. dominic di-natale is in los angeles with more. dominic? >> they did not tell the fed authorities they were doing it. in fact, very little information about these children at all. why were they moved there? we don't know. we know the government most certainly has been looking for new facilities, but certainly, in this case, both the governor and the senator of the respective states very much taken by surprise in this. what exactly do they intend to do with them? they are placing them with sponsors and also with families. some of those are also being put in facilities run by a non-profit that receives federal funding. the question is, why are the feds saying so very little about this? listen. >> my worry is the administration doesn't want people to know what the
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condition of these places are, how the kids are being treated in detention. these detention facilities should be completely open to the press and to the american people so that we know what conditions are -- we should be able to talk to the kids who are there. >> it's a combination of concern for the humanitarian angle on this, and this comes from protests on conditions of detention centers around the country where a lot of these immigrant children are being held. the concerns really are over the health care that is available and also just the general treatment of these children. the white house says that where it can, it's placing them with families and sponsors while the immigration proceedings continue, and as you go through the system, that could take up to two years. and critics of the government's policy is saying, look, if they're here for two years, they're probably here forever. so staying with these families and sponsors is supposed to be a
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temporary solution. there is definitely going to be renewed pressure on the white house over this policy. but health and human services, jim, are saying, we can't give you details about what is happening to these illegal immigrant kids because the law says we have to protect their privacy on that. we'll see what exactly the white house has got to say after it's now emerged that 950 children, 950 children, are being moved to the other side of the country without state authorities knowing. the question is why. back to you, jim. >> dominic, thank you very much. president obama is offering to negotiate a cease fire between israel and hamas, but so far neither side has taken him up on it. so what, if anything, can the u.s. do to help end the latest round of violence in the middle east? retired four-star general and fox news military analyst jack keane says the u.s.'s hands are tied. first, general keane, let me play for you what israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said on fox news sunday.
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listen. >> i just want your viewers to imagine the united states being bombarded not in one city or two cities but in every city between new york and colorado. maybe 20% of the united states would be exempt from this, 80% of your citizens would have to be in bomb shelters or ready to go into bomb shelters within a minute to a minute and a half max. >> you've talked about how the public gets numbed to news in the middle east. we've been lirstening to this fr years. it's sometimes hard to tell what's new about today's report from last week, last month, last year. but clearly the point that he is making is that if americans have some empathy for the situation israelis are in, they might feel differently about this. >> i think in general americans do have empathy for the challenges israel faces, but i do believe, as you suggested, that most of our adult lives
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we've been dealing with violence in israel. external armies initially and then terrorism inside the country. but now the face of terrorism is really changing. when you talk to israeli leaders, they know they're dealing with an almost intractable situation, jim. they're not only frustrated by it, i think they have a sense of hopelessness by it. you have hezbollah to the north, a terrorist group backed by iran that have tens of thousands of sophisticated rockets and missiles they have used in the past. hamas to the west, same capability also backed by iran. the fact of the matter is they can use these capabilities at will and change the entire quality of life experience inside israel for as long as they want to do it. and that is what's frustrating the israelis so much. >> because it has become more of a military operation than a terrorist operation. >> yeah. when i draw back and look at the middle east, i think you see a changing face of terrorism post
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9/11. certainly here, terrorist organizations behaving like military organizations with advanced weaponry. isis in syria and iraq, a terrorist organization for sure, but behaving like a military organization, actually an army that is on the move trying to conquer territory. this is new to the middle east and it's not going away. >> is there anything at all the u.s. can do about this? >> not much. i mean, the fact of the matter is, i think the prime minister is showing enormous restraint here in terms of what his objectives are as he spoke to britain this morning saying he wants a cease fire, he wants hamas to stop firing their rockets. what he's not saying is i intend to destroy the entire infrastructure of hamas' weapons system. or, i intend to destroy hamas. he is not advocating that. he will do as much as he can to force hamas to change its
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behavior. that's what he is going to do. >> chance of a cease fire? just a few seconds left. >> eight days in 2012 over a month because of ground invasion in 2008. i think this is going to go on for days longer, and we'll see a rise in palestinian casualties and also those rockets are going to continue on israel. >> jack keane, thank you very much. will the promise of social security end up being a pipe dream for millions of americans? the funding of it and medicare is in trouble. what's ahead for you and your children's financial future? our panel is next.
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the law, the budget office said it can no longer keep track of the spending. >> their ability to say this was a benefit to the federal budget is going to become more and more dubious as the years pass. >> take the employer mandate, for instance, which was delayed from 2014 until 2016 for employers with less than 100 workers, delayed one year for larger companies and softened so they only have to cover 70% of their workers. and since individuals were allowed to enroll until april 15, many will exceed the three-month limit to go without insurance or pay a fine, making it hard for the irs to enforce. >> and say, you owe us money because you didn't sign up in time to have insurance by march 1st. >> those two alone cost money. >> there was $102 billion that was supposed to come in the first two years. >> it also includes custom medicare including 250 billion
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in custom medicare advantage, but the president set those aside at the behest of senate democrats, even though more medicare cuts are planned. >> it's very dubious that some of these medicare cuts can be sustained over a long period of time. >> and expensive health care plans like those unions enjoy said to take effect in 2018 are likely to raise another billion or so if it survives. but when planned cuts to pay for the law don't happen, what do you do? >> you either have to reduce benefits in services, administrative costs, or you have to put in a different tax. >> now, no one knows how short the revenues will actually be, but if the president keeps making changes, the shortfall can only grow. babies born tomorrow and for years to come will inherit tens to trillions in federal promises made to their parents, vast promises in programs such as
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social security and medicare that the government has no plan to pay for. meaning someone, perhaps everyone, will be hurt, and it could get worse with a new report set to be released any day now. with me to discuss your future and your children's are steve moore, chief economist for the heritage foundation, and maya mcguinness, president of the committee for a responsible federal budget. thanks for joining us, guys. >> hi, jim. >> let me ask you first, we've got 10,000 baby boomers a day who are retiring for the next 20 years. >> that's right. >> that means we're going to have a lot of people collecting benefits. let me ask maya first, maya, how short are we in having enough money to cover all the promised benefits that the government has made? >> oh, on both programs, social security and medicare, our promises far exceed the revenues that are planned to come into the program. and on the path we're on right now, within one decade, basically the trust funds for
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medicare are going to be in the red, not having enough money to pay benefits, and the same is true for two decades from now in social security. if you look at the huge divide between what we've promised and what we can spend, you would have to reduce benefits across the board for everybody who depends on those programs all of a sudden. if we wait until the last moment, by as much as 20% in health care, medicare, almost a 25% cut in social security benefits if we don't make changes before we reach those dates where the trust funds really run out of funds. so the divide is quite large, and filling them will be one of the biggest challenges we have in our federal budget. >> now, steve, we're basically tens of trillions short -- >> that's trillion with a t, not billions with a b. >> the big t, right. tens of trillions short of having enough money to pay everything we've promised. >> we've known this for 20 or 30 years. this is not surprising, it's just that congress refuses to
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act to do something about it. i call this the biggest act of fiscal child abuse in the history of america, because who is going to be left holding these trillions of dollars of costs? it's going to be my children, your children. you know, there are 75 to 80 million baby boomers, as you said, over the next 20 years that are going to be retiring? we don't know where the funds are going to come from to pay for it. >> well, the government is great at giving things away. it's not very good at taking things away from people, and that's what's required here. maya, let me ask you. you were talking about social security. it runs out of sufficient funds, it can only pay out what it takes in. it runs out of sufficient funds to pay full benefits in 2033, meaning an overnight 25% cut. so if you're against any sort of changes in social security, that means you're in favor of a 25% cut in benefits. >> yeah, i have to say that's one of the things that's most confused me about the fight over social security, and it is such a fight. this is one of the single most polarizing policy issues there
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is, where people are in severe disagreement about whether there is a problem or not, whether it's part of the budget or not, all of these things. it doesn't matter how you think about the accounting of social security. if you want to protect the people who depend on social security the most, the worst thing you could do is nothing, which is what we're doing right now. like you said, if your plan is to do nothing, your plan is basically that, to settle for this horrible across-the-board 25% cut for benefits, and that would hit the poorest seniors who depend on the program. whereas if we made smart, sensible choices now, you could look at both sides, you could look at revenues, you could look at spending, but more importantly, you could look at phasing in changes so gradually and in targeted ways so that people who depend on the program is protected and we could actually make structural changes to keep these programs balanced and doing what they're supposed to be doing, providing benefits for people who need them. >> well, what's going to make the problem a lot worse is -- you've seen this over the last four or five years -- what have
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you seen in the labor force? record numbers of people dropping out of the work force. i predict to you on this show that when we get this new trustee's report that the bankruptcy date is going to be moved closer because we have millions of people who are disappearing from the labor force. when they're not working, jim, they're not paying payroll tablgfaxes to fund seniors. and the people dropping out in large numbers is young people. >> the president had in there a change in the cost of living increase. it would have amounted to about .25%, one-quarter of 1% off the future increase in benefits. not off the current benefit level but off the future increase, and the president backed off of it. maya, why? >> well, i have to say i thought this was one of the most sensible changes you could make, because what it does is it krekts t corrects the way we measure inflation. right now we overstate it and it's merely a technical change that would fix how we measure
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inflation, and that would mean that the increases in future social security benefits would be more accurate, an accurate reflection of that increase. the problem, again, is that as soon as you talk about anything that touches social security, the political arrows come out and people are vicious on this, and we haven't had a sensible national discussion yet. it's really going to hurt the program and people who need it. >> i have three kids that are hopefully about to enter the work force if they can get a job. the solution for young people clearly is to convert this system into kind of a personal account system, where young people can put a percentage of their payroll tax dollars into a personal account that they own that congress can't steal from them. we can still pay the benefits to seniors, but for future generations, that's the kind of thing, i think, the only way that young people listening to this show are only going to see a pension benefit. >> thanks very much. steve and maya, we appreciate it. how does this work? mill enyals think they are
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blaking the political mold. what does this mean for the 2016 elections? we'll take a look at this, next. a complete multivitamin with 7 antioxidants to support cell health. age? who cares.
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now, millennials are breaking the mold when it comes to breaking centrists.stereotypes. they like physical us. let me ask you first, before we get into the details, there was one finding that millennials don't really identify with either party. in fact, on a series of policy issues, they say they trust neither party to handle 12 of 15 issues. that's pretty amazing. >> that's correct. yes. in particular, privacy, only 50% said they trust neither party on the issue of privacy. they don't trust either party on government spending or the budget deficit. >> let me ask you about some of the particulars here. if you'll forgive me,
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millennials seem to go both ways on the size of government and taxes here. in one sense, we'll go first on one set of answers. 73% favor allowing private accounts for social security. 51% favor private accounts, even if it means cutting benefits for future and current retirees. 59% say cutting taxes would help the economy. 57% prefer a smaller government providing fewer services with low taxes. now, those response make it sound like millennials embrace republican positions and are pretty conservative in some respects. we'll look at the other side in a moment. so where are they? >> in many ways, they are more fiscally conservative, especially when they find out they'll be responsible for paying for these government programs. they want government to care for the poor and the disadvantaged. i think most americans agree to some level of a social safety
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net. however, when millennials find out they'll be responsible for paying more for health care or they'll be responsible for paying high we often see their support for large government flip and they look a lot like older americans, liking small government with fewer taxes. >> there's no political adage if you borrow from peter to pay paul, you'll always have the support of paul. sounds like young people have already figured that one out. now, let's look at the other side of some of these things. they also said 69% said it's government's responsibility to provide everyone with health care insurance and 51% have a favorable view of the affordable care act. 68% say government should ensure everyone makes a living wage. 66% say raising taxes on the wealthy would help the economy. 58% say the government should spend more on assistance to the poor, even if it means higher taxes. i thought they just said in the previous set the opposite.
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>> well, here's, i think, what's going on. for millennials, they came with a politically impressionable age during the great recession or right afterward. a third of them were living at home. a third of them are underemployed or unemployed. so they're concerned about their own income ability. when it comes to income ability and taking care of the poor and disadvantaged, they do feel like government should take a bigger role in that area. they're not sure if free markets drive income ability. they think free markets drive technological progress and they endorse the free market system two to one when you ask them. but they're not sure if the free market system helps people rise out of poverty. and you can understand why given the sluggish economy in which they're operating in. >> so they want people to do better as long as they don't have to pay for it. is that right? >> that's true, yes. >> great. emily, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. polling director for the reason foundation. women are leading the pack when it comes to starting their
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own businesses despite what they say is sometimes a harder climb to the top. fox news senior business correspondent is here with more. brenda? >> hey, jim. boys versus girl, men versus women. long standing issue. but in one area, it seems we could have a winner. yes, female small business owners may be outrunning men when it comes to running successful businesses this year. that's the word from bank of america's spring 2014 small business owner report. women are optimistic about their biz prospects. nearly 70% of women surveyed expect their revenue to go up this year. but here's the really big difference between male and female entrepreneurs. the survey found that women plan to put out the help wanted sign more often than men. 56% of women plan to hire more employees this year compared to 50% of men. plus, more than two-thirds of women think their firm will keep growing over the next five years. now, we all know there are differences between women and men, but the survey really
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points out some interesting ones between male and female small business owners. on character traits, nearly 60% of women think their ability to multitask is a big strength. far fewer men point to that. but more men than women say confidence is a strong suit. now, here's one place where there is real similarity. both men and women say their biggest regret, not spending time with loved ones. they also agree that being their own boss is a big plus for owning a small business. jim? >> yeah, i think everybody could agree with that. thank you very much, brenda. amelia earhart was an inspiration for little girls everywhere. after the break, you'll meet a name sake that's celebrating personal flying success and working hard tone courage more young female pilots. i make a lot of purchases for my business.
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amelia earhart has finally finished her trip around the world. not the one who disappeared 77 years ago. we're talking about her name sake from denver. this amelia completed a 24,000-mile journey by taking a
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new path around the equator. she runs a nonprofit that teaches young girls to fly. that's all for me here in washington. "fox news sunday" is next. thanks for watching fox. stay here. i'm brit hume in for chris wallace. israel warns residents of north gaza to evacuation after announcing it will use the military with great force to strike the region within the next 24 hours. >> no country on earth will remain passive in the face of hundreds of rockets fired on its cities, and israel is no exception. >> we'll talk with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and we'll talk about representative ross. then the stalemate over immigration continues after president obama travels to

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