. >> social mobility is worse in america can read more of a problem in america than in canada or swedenother places. it has gotten worse. >> it is a collocated story. -- complicated story. when you look at whether you moved to the top to bottom. it hasn't changed much but has been poor. a child born in poverty has a 30% chance of ever getting beyond the bottom. in less than 5% to get to the top. that has been true for several decades. we have a significant problem. america is not better than other developed countries. it is worse than some. worse than canada. you can also think about it in terms of absolute mobility. is your situation better than and was? better than your parents at your age? the picture is collocated. -- complicated. most americans are doing better than their parents, but not better than similarly situated people were 10 or 20 years ago. that is why it feels like running or place. >> what should government do about this? >> we have to impact that. there are two size of the wage squeeze. one is, do people have the tools they need to move up? an education challenge. also

nobody dies in canada or japan or taiwan or germany or england or sweden because they don't have health insurance. that could have been accomplished by a democratic party as good today as it was in the 1960s--wasn't that great, but by comparison, it was much better--and a republican party that had some liberal elements in it in 1960 compared to today's draconian conglomeration of political ignorance, arrogance, stupidity, and cruelty in congress. [applause] so... i can footnote all this if we had time. [laughter] now, the first thing we have to ask ourselves is, can 1% of the american people--one out of a hundred; let's say 3 million people--organized back home where you are, and congress watchdog groups steer congress along the whole line of redirections that a majority of the people support? a majority of the people support full medicare for all, including a majority of doctors and nurses. a majority of people support raising the minimum wage to levels of 1968, adjusted for inflation. it would be $10 now an hour; it's, federal, $7.25; a little higher here in california. a majority of