host: christine owens. guest: daniel makes a couple of good points.er of thes the ancho american people. they are paying the price and there is a question of equity, who should have to bear that burden? we can address long-term deficits without taking into account the basic livelihood of working people and the poor and we should be examining those approaches. he said he just graduated and cacannot get benefits because he cannot get a job. we have around 5 million people on unemployment altogether. one in three people today collect unemployment benefits. you have to be unemployed because you have lost a job. daniel did not lose a job so he is not eligible for unemployment benefits. everyone collecting unemployment benefits has worked and many have worked for many years and not able to find work. ont: here's marc stone twitter. guest: i think that that is a problem but for a different reason. there is tremendous bias against the long-term unemployed that takes the form of discrimination. there has been legislation introduced that would ban refusing to c

christine owens discusses unemployment benefits. and after that, dominic chu discusses what wall street investors are doing with their money in advance of the fiscal cliff. "washington journal" live on tuesday morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. now, look at the role of private enterprise and public education and what the obama administration approach will be in 2013. this is an hour and 35 minutes. >> welcome. thank you for joining us. we are just getting back. the energy level is probably going to get mellow. we will make that work for us. today's panel is on the question of for-profit and federal education policy. this is a topic that we at aei have been talking about for an extended stretch. in support of the templeton foundation, we have been running the private enterprise projects, trying to think about the opportunities and the challenge. how do make this work for kids in the communities? how do we think about some of those challenges the potential perils? this panel is a close up series of panels and conversations. we have commiss

here on the "washington journal," go to our website, c-span.org, in the video libraries put in christine owens. she was our guest yesterday to talk about exploration of those long-term unemployment benefits. here's twitter. guest: i understand both sides that have argue. it's true the g.o.p. requested that the congressional research service withdraw that report which they did. so the c.r.s. report made an authorization -- observation others have made which is that marginal tax rate on the wealthy and in general don't correlate, don't connect so well with overall economic growth. so, for example, the 1990's we had higher taxes on the wealthy and we had great economic growth. the eisenhower administration, time of great common prosperity for the country, tax rates were in the stratosphere compared to now. 80% to 90% for the wealthiest americans. on the other hand, the research is not great on this topic. for one reason, we don't, you know, academics like this, they study it, they like tens of thousands of data points. we only have 60 years of history about this and it's hard to make firm conclus