i think all said and done acrosh country the race probably comes down to whether africano americann come out in large numbers. >> we'll rest there. shawn walsh, amy and colin. thank you a. turning to education. a new research project reveals big achieveme gaps by race, income and ethnicity among california 6 million school children. theem achit gap starts in kindergarten. while student test scores a improving. fourth and eighth grade udents stillerform low ine ring and math. black and latin students having worse out comes than white peers. >> joing me now. one of the researchers who contriuted to t report called getting down to facts too. al san francisco chronicle education reporter. jill tucker. welcome to you both. heather, one of the most troubling findings in your study was the achievement gap begins even before kids enter kindergarten. how is that so? >> great question. this set of studies we want ton ut where the achievement gap was happening and who it was affecting most. long time wn for a have gaps in fourth and eighth gr te. we havse by race income lines by language status. to

americann august, business the lowest number since october.nth's payroll was also affected by the toys "r" us story. waiting for the jobs report, of course. that comes friday. still with us, sandra crowl. let me show you this chart. investors are piling into chips. are they piling in ahead of the payroll numbers because it will be showing inflationary impact, or because the president will impose tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese goods? sandra: good question. i think it might be a bit of both, actually. primarily off the back of rising inflation through rising wages through parts of the economy that clearly are at full capacity, like the trucking industry, for example. perhaps we'll have to wait sometime that the kick in the is inflation at the moment is at the central bank's target. cb is at 2%. what more could they ask for? clearly we are at the end of the cycle, typical for inflation to kick up and protection inside our portfolio. matt: on a day like today, is it best to just sit, watch the data, and wait? markets seem like they've ha

she's the author of a book on the subject called "an americann si," and she's the editor- in-chief of kaiser health news. elisabeth rosenthal, welcome to the newshour. so in sum, what is this a.p. analysis telling us? >> well, it's showing us how hard it is to bring down drug prices and that t president, despite his narrative of sayicog thesanies are getting away with murder, isn't making a whole lot of headway. i mean, that's pretty extraordinary. 96 up to one down. >> woodruff: but they do show there is i some slowi the rate of increase, is that right? >> well, they do, but when you're saying slowing and the rate of increase, that means they're still going up, and these prices are already for many drugs at extraordinary numbers and unaffordable for many americans. so they shouldn't be going up at a slower pace. i think we really need them to come down. >> woodruff: now, we know, elisabeth rosenthal, what the drug com snies say. thy we need this additional money because we're doing experiments, we're trying to come up with new drugs to solve other problems to cure other illnesses, an