this is happening i'm joined now by mike wise brought his the co director at the center for economic and policy research and mark let's start off with i just named a bunch of reasons why we've heard of why these people are having these demonstrations can you will it down for us is the really one thing that this boils down to no i don't think so and i think it is unclear because it's a mixture of people with different demands and complaints. you know the media is against the government in brazil very much in fact president obama here could never got elected with a media that was so much against his. presidency or his party and the workers' party you know has been elected three times. in the presidency and so you know and they've also complex a lot i mean they've reduced poverty by over forty five percent the increase the minimum wage in real turned to inflation by ninety five percent. maybe increased social spending on a number of things especially the anti-poverty programs they reduced inequality so that's why you haven't seen anything like this until no because most people i mean film is approval ratin

snowden i'm joined by my guests in washington mark vice broad he is co-director of the center for economic and policy research and we also have aureole right now he is a fellow at the treatment national security project right gentlemen cross-talk rules and i think that means you can jump in any time you want ari if i go to you in washington you know you can agree or disagree with what mr snowden has done and as we are talking right now he's still apparently in a moscow airport but has he furthered what he wanted a debate on national security. well i think there's no question that he sparked a pretty intense debate both in the united states and around the world about the nature of government surveillance about the role of the n.s.a. in particular but i also think it's pretty clear that the longer he goes out on the lam so to speak and particularly the places he's going or purported to going china russia cuba would or these are not places that are known for internet freedom so to speak either so i mean here this goes i always hear that i mean internet freedom is not really interrupted here in russia but it's sa

resorts and theme parks brace for the summer rush, they can count a quarter of all americans out of the mix. that's how many receive no paid vacation in a study by the center for economic and policy researchr your wages, the less likely time off is in your plans, according to john schmidt. many americans get vacations. >> we do. but we get a lot less than everybody else. the average american gets less than a minimum required vacation in every other country that we looked at. >> reporter: they looked at places like japan with ten days, germany with 24, and france with 30. what's more, a study last year found more than half of americans who do get vacation time don't use all of it. often for fear of appearing lazy or being laid off. >> i think what it is is we have a much higher level of job insecurity in this country than in the rest of the world. >> reporter: it has not always been this way. the growth of the car culture in the 1950s fueled the idea that regular folks, not just the rich, should get away from the grind now and then. >> how would you feel if you were me? >> reporter: and for several decades, the family vacation was as american as, well, america. >> a vacation. have you ever

help break all this down i'm joined by mark weiss brought your co-director of the center for economic policy and research mark welcome back to the program good to have you with us first there's a lot going on here you want to just lay this out in simple terms what's going on in china first of all well in china i don't think you the analogy to the lehmann brothers or the financial crisis or the great recession is really appropriate i mean i think china has some problems it's not regulating its banking system enough so the less we were doing back into the use of and but it's nothing comparable i mean we had this is a trillion dollar housing bubble burst as a result you had a huge decline in construction and a huge decline in spending from people who were spending on the basis of their housing wealth nothing like that is going to happen in china. china plowed through the asian crisis where its neighbors were devastated who plowed right through the great recession they will change their strategy. they government controls most of the banking systems command a well they will change their strategy is probably t

lynch is a professor of economics at washington college and a visiting senior fellow at the center for american progress and robert rector is a senior research fellow in domestic policyat the heritage foundation. robert rector if we took the millions who will are already in the u.s. out of status and made a large number of them legal residents, what are the major costs involved? >> well, one of the things that the bill does when you grant legalization is you're granting 10 until to 11 million people who are current legal access to a wide range of government benefits, such as obamacare, over 80 means-tested welfare programs, such as medicaid and food stamps, ultimately to social security and medicare. the 11 million immigrants have an average education level of tenth grade so they pay very little and will pay very little in taxes. they are inherently net beneficiaries. therefore, when you grant them access to all of these programs it's extremely expensive to other taxpayers in want united states. >> suarez: robert lifn, do you agree there are a lot of costs involved bringing people into a legal framework. >> there are costs but the benefits far exceed the costs. what