elizabeth alexander, thank you so much. >> thank you very much for the conversation. >> ifill: elizabethander shared two of her late husband's favorite dishes with us, spicy red lentil tomato curry, and spaghetti with a hundred onions. find those recipes, on our home page, pbs.org/newshour. we have a late-breaking development, the u.s. senate joined the house in passing a republican budget blueprint for the first time in a decade. it's not biding but calls for cuts in medicaid and food stamps while increasing spending on defense. with republicans in control of the majority, it was approved on a near party-line vote 61-48. the measure now sets up a budget showdown with the president and democrats. >> woodruff: on a trip to africa for the clinton foundation former president bill clinton stopped in liberia yesterday and praised its president, ellen johnson sirleaf, for making progress combating ebola. if no new cases are identified later this week, the country could be declared "ebola-free," a far cry from the depths of last year's outbreak. later tonight on pbs, frontline reveals the story

i'm elizabeth alexander an nonprofit working and here with the local 10 to one as nonprofit workers we what i was seeing in the presentation i couldn't help thinking why are not not talking about the workers delivering those services they fit into the low wage workers if your making 13 or 1250 an hour is not a different experience in an a nonprofit or anything else in the economy it is difficult to get but we have to make that commitment you could take 10 thousand people from the lowest rages and move them into the middle just by property line funding a cola people will have those increases year by year and so the most of my coworkers earner between telephone 25 and $25 an hour on the high ends so when we're looking at the 2 hundred percent of the poverty level is $43,000 a year for 3 family members most of the workers have under that that are providing the services we're talking about are qualifying for the same kinds of services we're talking about providence the easiest way to move people out the poverty to provide a living wage job and the city to make a permanent commitment to us

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. >> brown: poet elizabeth alexander led the project, and she, like the others, has her own personalctions. >> in african american history, in african american culture, as a black person myself, we all have some connection to migration at some point in our families. it really was very powerful to think, "this is what my mother, my very own mother, she comes from this." >> the past has long legs and is heavy, which was a kind of warning. stay clear of the enormous twisted tree on tidwell hill. >> brown: crystal williams grew up in detroit. her father had come from alabama. she chose perhaps the most harrowing painting in the series one about lynching. the poem she wrote, "year after year we visited alabama," became a gentle homage to her loving father. >> the poem really has to do with the lessons that i think we have lost. my father was truly one of the most gentle people i've ever met. and i understand now as an adult that that gentleness was a choice, that he was choosing, given what he had seen in the south, to live a life in which he looked for connections between people to pract

elizabeth and alexander are my twins we have jamie. they're everything.nately about those issues. growing up as a small kid in new hampshire, i knew that i could do absolutely anything and i was always told that. i still believe you absolutely can. but we need to make sure that we're preserving all this opportunity for my kids, your kids. for all of our grandkids. that's going to be a big theme on trish regan intel. how do we preserve economic opportunity for everyone in this country? >> i'll give you a fox news high 5 from mom to mom. trish regan intel you don't want to miss that on fox business. >>> coming up, former florida governor jeb bush taking tough questions going one on one with our own megyn kelly last night. how did he do? you want to see it. charles krauthammer in minutes to grade jeb's performance. >>> it's where america first fell in love with her. >> there is no way that i'm going to make it. >> yes. yes. >> yes. >> congratulations. >> welcome to hollywood. gl j loved her then yflt love her now. former idol contestant kellie pickler walkin