this has grown to impact all of them all americans and so we knew that in our advocacy and efforts that we had to be as inclusive as possible because that is more in line with our narrative about creating a more inclusive democracy tonight we're talking about two particular states florida and north carolina which are conspicuous in the voting rights situation but all across america and indeed all around the world for days now we've been wincing we've been discussing a certain sound bite that the president spoke in a meeting here in washington marty and desmond in that order dia thank donald trump is a racist. i would not presume to put myself in the place of got to read a person's heart i can say that the words that he used certainly had racial overtones and those should be very very disturbing to anybody that would sit and

listen to those things sit in front of their to television and hear that from the present the united states it should be a cause for alarm taking it beyond the person of the policies that the president advocates racist in your mind. i think it. in some cases many people in america think that they are and then you have just as many people on the other side to think that they're not it becomes a point of perspective everybody has a different perspective of where they come from and it just so happens that people that have been bred black or brown in this country that have been marginalized many years feel like those policies have been slanted towards keeping them and their vote and their is their best interest tamp down as it were desmond same question how do you feel about this president. i tell you what i do feel that there are more

than enough people that have an analysis of the president and what he said i think what's more important than what the president is saying is that american citizens have an opportunity to choose who they presidents are and so where we focus on is not how an individual vote but rather not they if they have the opportunity to vote especially after they serve their time now whether or not folks people believe that whatever the president said is at or below a certain standard that's up to that individual to make that determination our go though is make sure that as many american citizens as possible be able to weigh in on who they want to lead their country well within our vote is the most precious part of our country thank you desmond meade florida writes restoration coalition and marty potted from the charlotte mecklenburg and double a.c.p. i appreciate your being here thank you for having me on coming up.

millennia old schmall lenny els yes there are more of them than there are of us but we baby boomers are the most consequential generation i'll tell you why next i'm holland cook this is the big picture on our t. america. logo was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles that don't. produce offspring to tell you that what we gossip the public are file for the most important news today. off of advertising tell me you are not cool enough to buy their products.

all the hawks that we along with our good luck. with the islamic state and its many confederates defeated or facing defeat in syria what is next for this war torn country what justification exists for the us to maintain military forces there does washington want syria partition if so then why . young children have worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million doing so today. this culture led to the development of bolivia's new liberal and highly controversial children's code in two thousand and fourteen which gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances what is

and isn't as. these animals. eat but with that you have in the end all. the things years. but there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operating completely outside the local. mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but it's never enforced and that means the schoolboy mine is here to continue risking their lives for the money they need to survive.

what do these people have in common suzanne somers steven spielberg cher pat say jack diane keaton sylvester stallone linda ronstadt bill clinton and donald trump they're all seventy one i am not yet but every day in the usa ten thousand people turn sixty five and the next two decades another sixty five million americans will hit the big seven no we baby boomers born in one

thousand nine hundred eighty six thousand nine hundred sixty four were the biggest generation in history and pillows millennialist came along their age nineteen to thirty five and they will be outnumbered by the younger so called generation z. those now eighteen and younger yet we outnumbered boomers people my age remain the most consequential generation fact boomers have the most money the olson calls them the most valuable generation for marketers because they hold seventy percent of the disposable income in the usa and they're about to get more. on july one twenty sixteen something began and it will never end that day the oldest baby boomers turn seventy and a half the age at which by law they are required to begin withdrawing from ira accounts this money squirreled away for decades and earning interest is now flooding the retail economy baby boomers the most consequential generation are

not set in their ways and they are tech savvy although we do occasionally ask a teenager for a tech assist boomers are tech savvy one reason young people are fleeing facebook for other social media platforms is that their parents and grandparents are there a he three percent of boomers conduct online research before making major offline purchases which busts another myth that as we get older we're so set in our ways and so brand loyal that we don't consider new products boni boomers are lifelong experimenters to our parents' horror way back when if we need is legal in your state look who's in the store bloomers our health conscious they walk diet is of extreme interest baby boomers purchase seventy seven percent of all prescription

drugs and sixty one percent of over the counter drugs already expecting to live longer than any previous generation they spend on teeth whitening and cosmetic surgery and the golden years are now boomers are empty nesters heck their grandparents there were forty million grandparents in the usa in one nine hundred eighty there will be eighty million in twenty twenty baby boomers control eighty percent of all leisure travel spending they've got the time and the money so who are way. let's ask fred jacobs president of detroit based jacobs media fred is a research guy who has a gift for explaining things and more understandable terms that many research people tend to he will blush when i say this but fred more or less invented my favorite kind of radio classic rock fred jacobs welcome.

how and thank you it's great to be here and you know i kind of think of myself as a data whisperer i mean that's really what it is with research trying to get through the data and really come up with the findings that that really matter while you're a great storyteller when you find that stuff the trump presidency is the best thing that's ever happened to cable news and talk radio most days people younger than you and i are horrified by what's in the news but we boomers have seen this movie before fifty years ago it was called one nine hundred sixty eight only that the music was better you've done teen focus groups and research projects and interviews and you're a great listener read the room what is the frame of mind of people our age these days and what do we worry about. well we're still trying to get good tickets to the eagles concerts and when the stones come back through right i mean it's always

about getting good seats but right now holland it's really more health hard and pocketbook right i mean boomers are more concerned about their four a one ks and making sure that because they're living longer that their quality of life as they obviously are in senior years. medicare that they've got enough money to last so it really has come down to the basics right just health and money those are the big concerns that they're really thinking about now by the accepted definition of baby boomers born in one thousand nine hundred sixty one nine hundred sixty four boomers today are fifty four to seventy two years old is it a mistake to view them on a less likely to consider them as one age group it's always been a mistake whether they were in their twenty's or now as you indicate they're they're in their sixty's really with in that big group there are all kinds of

demographic slices there are different types of boomers clearly the early boomers missed some of the crazy one nine hundred sixty eight stuff that you talked about been the middle generation that was right in the heart of it and then there are younger boomers who really grew up for the most part in the seventy's and they missed a lot of that and those kinds of life changing experiences the things that happened to you in your formative years whether it's the music you were exposed to or when you went to school all that has a very permanent impact on the kind of person that you are today thus what you've done with classic rock is this music being discovered by people now the age we were when these songs were current. that's the crazy part of it right when you think about boomers when they were teens they never in their wildest dreams would have listened to their parents' music it would just be thinkable but the crazy part of today is that many many millennia old now and we see this

consistently in the nielsen ratings have adopted classic rock as a primary go to source of music there's a lot of different reasons why that is but i think part of it is that they clearly have an understanding that this is some of the greatest music ever made and people will be listening to led zeppelin and the beatles a hundred years from now just the same way that we enjoy classical music so classic rock really has truly stood the test of time and after all these songs were made for people that age to begin with a low as of one complaint i loved the christmas music on the f.m. stations last month but must that be the only time of year we get to hear the beach boys i mean this really a little more out of their repertoire than little st nick and i write if you are right and you know that whole these things broadcast radio really has an issue and

this is sort of a boomer bias if you will but as you know twenty five to fifty four years old is the advertising agency sweet spot in the radio business and sad to say beach boys fans tend to be on the north side of that demographic range yeah that's crazy with all the money we have to spend now recent presidential potty mouth has caused such a fuss that trump actually felt the need to assure us he's not a racist his were the words of a seventy one year old does your sense of younger people affirm the notion that prejudice fades with each generation and does it vary by region. i think that is the trend holland that that clearly the younger generation today even though i think we may have thought of ourselves as being liberal and free and all of that back in the which dogs generation but in fact millennialist today are

exceptionally open minded they clearly appreciate and demand diversity and interestingly enough they are into some of the same types of causes that baby boomers were when they were young i think the environment is a great example of that earth they really came into being in the early seventy's that was very much a boomer initiative and here today young people are especially zoned in on the environment and ecology and global warming and all of those issues so in some ways we actually see in our millennial research some of the same patterns that we saw back in the day when boomers were young yeah i think there's a bum rap on millennial says being shrugging and monosyllabic but they do seem to have that that social conscience akin to these protest marches you and i were doing before we both turned blonde. yeah and i think thank you but

yeah i think the trumpet ministration has probably turbo charged all of that my son is twenty six years old living in los angeles and he has attended a number of protest marches in the past year and that's something i never would have thought could have possibly happened again and yet again what goes around comes around thank you fred jacobs from jacob's media and jake apps if you need one fred's web site is jacobs media com i appreciate you joining us from the motor city where some of the best music in our lives was born and let me know if you find those eagles tickets and that's the big picture if you missed any part of this week's show or if you want to share it you can where you'll find all or shows at youtube dot com slash the big picture r t you can watch us anytime on

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the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into pigs these are the countries with we curriculum is that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of low gloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work it makes millions of people very unhappy those who are unemployed see their wages decline after almost a decade how good are the results just all of it in europe these are providing people. with the world or of the people with your daughter joined a choice. they believe will be she thought plumbers i mean if a legal. challenge must be more than this she was always saying it's the sound of a. while the same measure still in place to one of the consequences

is to weaken bluebird. will first one of this is the truth the consumer is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision makers. today there are four million students studying abroad a trend is on the rise in the game of global competition international students are very much coveted the best research graduates are entirely taken care of as for the huge number of students that can afford studying abroad they represent an irresistible financial honeypot the expression global student market has become a household term among university head offices. in france and germany foreign students don't pay tuition fees just yet but it changes soon to come in

england they contribute fourteen billion euros ten billion pounds a year to the national economy a foreign student pays between twenty. thirty thousand euros a year twice as much as the european student and it represents an additional consumer in the country a dream ok i have to. say the university of manchester has about ten thousand international students which is the most of any u.k. university or there was a percentage it's not the highest so those students are important to us for a number of reasons they bring diversity they bring different cultures they bring different backgrounds different ways of thinking our own students benefit from studying in an environment with students from very different backgrounds. of course they also bring income to the university which is important the largest community is trying to students which make up just under forty percent of the total international student body. the crowds lining the streets around.

the president visited we knew it was. during his visit president. matters. not a sale on. me finish like just material. right with. the state. stopping. since the early ninety's chinese higher education is experiencing a spectacular growth. over the course of thirteen years the number of students grew from seven million to thirty five million studying abroad has become an absolute must for all the chinese new benefiting from the economic boom this year over seven

hundred thousand young chinese studying somewhere in the world a four hundred percent increase in fifteen years and the trend is unlikely to reverse. a new business is multiplying worldwide. companies in rolling students in international universities in terms of commercial office universe does in the u.s. u.k. and australia clinch first place. shop aren't tripping. up and. for all the nice idea about it all for what it is i'm just out of a. current trench what are you going to go up. and it wants you out audio where the bulk of your true since. you and i don't jim. we are basically we are looking to ship back to her home and her amount of. french made

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a brighter future in stocks that is the shanghai or beijing hundreds of thousands now migrate every year to big cities. but the chinese economic system isn't quite ready to absorb all these young graduates. dong is one of them he studied bioengineering for four years in a college from his province today he makes a living from odd jobs he dreams of working in the film industry he belongs to this new class of people that are educated but poor. and you're. shown no hold libet you didn't you are young you know you're it didn't you do or oh no. well they are now me on the watch and they get here. and.

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quite an area you're a cheating in some cook our trash you do their dirty come in her order does either mean you moved your way to. being in the. you know i do know your. room or you know. that. despite disenchanted hopes of upward mobility china has no intention of slowing down the development of its universities it wants to become a key player of global higher education the us australia and western europe all covered this new market countless partnerships are entered into every year between china and foreign countries. and.

the entire world has its eye set on china and china has its eye set on the entire world in two thousand and three university researchers developed a shanghai ranking the most media ties to the most controversial and the most followed ranking report worldwide a world ranking based on the number of nobel prizes fields medals and publications and scientific journals the united states clearly dominates the ranking among the top hundred there are over fifty american universities eighteen blish for french and four german. so i'm afraid international rankings aren't and i sound afraid because i absolutely hate them but in some parts of the world in particular by all counts it ranks.

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then and mark just kind of want to be you know of a up. whereas the criticism is substantial very few years in university presidents resist this ranking grace the narcissistic offer is tempting be seen and be identified as the best and so countries increase university merges with an explicit objective build up the number of research labs multiply publications and accumulate awards they go climb the rankings in france the most representative projects settled in the south of paris eighteen of the country's top leading higher education research institutions grouped under a unique banner here lies the future pinnacle of french education and research the next french harvard stanford or mit a poll of sheer excellence amidst fields of beetroot. the new table that you're on that you're

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