one casey gerald does not justify the suffering of so many children in america and that suffering ishave made and not made in terms of the kind of support that we want to give to people and the kind of outcomes that we want to accept and not endorse. if this book does anything it can help us see that this machine isn't working. but that's not a cause for dispair. it's a cause for action and that action gives me a lot of hope. >> thank you for stopping by. >> thank you. >> of cour a course for hope in difficult times. that's it for our program tonight. thank you for watching and join us again tomorrow night. >> pati narrates: los cabos, m mexico. down at the southern tip of the baja peninsula, one of mexico's most popular tourist destinations is also one of its newest cities. but there's a unique history here that dates back centuries. >> the pirates used to come and hide right there in the bay of cabo san lucas. >> i'm following this chef and food historian off the beaten path to find traces of that european pirate influence still alive today. it's the same technique as pizza! i'm ta

one casey gerald does not justify the suffering of so many children in america and that suffering ishave made and not made in terms of the kind of support that we want to give to people and the kind of outcomes that we want to accept and not endorse. if this book does anything it can help us see that this machine isn't working. but that's not a cause for dispair. it's a cause for action and that action gives me a lot of hope. >> thank you for stopping by. >> thank you. >> of cour a course for hope in difficult times. that's it for our program tonight. thank you for watching and join us again tomorrow night. >> announcer: this is nightly business report with bill griffeth and sue herera. >>> bouncing around. the dow erased a triple-digit loss on a report the u.s. and china doubled down on efforts to reach a trade agreement. >> going gangbusters. consumer spending is up. and that could be just what the economy needs to fend off headwinds. >> big in texas. that's what an energy company is doing does as it prepares to dominate natural gas. nightly business report for thursday, november 1

let's bring in author casey gerald. he joins us now.on is author and nbc news political analyst, ano anon girardis. anon, after all this time, you would think i wouldn't stumble over your name, but there it is. casey, let me ask you about the american dream. you said it's not dead, it never existed. explain. >> well, i wouldn't say it never existed. i think the american dream is very much alive and real, joe, and everybody from the "new york times" to george w. bush agrees i'm the embodiment of it, and that's quite sad. i've lived america from the very bottom to the very top. i was born in this little forgotten world of oak cliff, texas. went off to yale and played football and was in wall street. i was in the obama administration. i spent three years after going to harvard business school driving 4,000 miles across the country to appalachia, detroit, new orleans. what i found was the american dream is real, it just happens to be a distraction, a distraction from the american machine. you take a kid like me, and it allows us to ignore t

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it's called, "there will be no miracles her" author casey gerald tells his up-to-the-moment of obtaining tioning the american dream. as always, we hope you read along and join of join the discussion on ou facebook page for this "now read this," in rtnership with the "new york times."oo >>uff: and we'll be back shortly with a company that uses its contract to make pants forry the milio employee those often overlooked for a job. s t first, take a moment to hear from your local pbstation. it's a chance to offer your support, which helps keep programs like ours oair. >> woodruff: for those stations with us, lack of access to running water is an issue in many developing countries, buts itso a problem in the united states. special correspondent fred de sam lazaro has this encore report from new mexico on new efforts to bring basic amenities to the navajo nation reservation. >> the payload literally a lifeline. >> the kids would be yelling, running to the water truck when i'm coming up to their house. >> reporter: she's known as "the water lady," nay region where 40% of reidents have no access