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heather mcgee, and columnist, sally kohn. thank you for joining us.

heather mcgee, and columnist, sally kohn. thank you for joining us.evening, rachel. >>> thanks to my friends for joining us this hour, as well. for a hot minute in the commonwealth of virginia, not long after the civil war there was a political party called the readjuster party. the democratic party, which was conservative and racist, at the time had been the dominant force in virginia politics for a long time. they were always opposite the republican party or the whig party, depending on the year. but at the other moment, the party challenging the democrats and in fact winning the governorship of virginia, it was not the whigs or the democrats, it was the re-adjuster. i bet there was a thesis of the lost re-adjuster party. i bet i could just google it. he made history, not just because his strange, now forgotten party won that high office. he made history because his time

heather mcgee, and columnist, sally kohn. thank you for joining us.s to my friends for joining us this hour, as well. for a hot minute in the

heather mcgee, and columnist, sally kohn. thank you for joining us. good evening, rachel. >>> thanks to my friends for joining us this hour, as well. for a hot minute in the commonwealth of virginia, not long after the civil war there was a political party called the readjuster party. the democratic party, which was conservative and racist, at the time had been the dominant force in virginia politics for a long time. they were always opposite the republican party or the whig party, depending on the year. but at the other moment, the party challenging the democrats and in fact winning the governorship of virginia, it was not the whigs or the democrats, it was the re-adjuster. i bet there was a thesis of the lost re-adjuster party. i bet i could just google it. he made history, not just because his strange, now forgotten party won that high office. he made history because his time in the state house, his time of governor of virginia in the 1880s, that was the last time that any party in virginia was only able to hold the governorship for one term. befor

and heather mcgee, the vice president of policy and outreach. nice to have you all here with your bowls of fruit loops in front of you. peter, what are the things that we think we know about economic recovery that this particular long-term sort of limping along economy are challenging us on? >> well, this recovery -- and i would put that in quotation marks -- beggers the concept of recovery. it's been a recovery for the same people who benefitted from the bubbles that preceded the recovery, the dotcom bubble, the housing bubble. if you are well educated, if you are in the upper income strata, you have done very well the last few months. the stock market has done well, housing prices are recovering, unemployment has never been all that high for you and now it's coming down and the opportunities are coming back. if you're in the camp that never got the upside of the bubbles and then suffered a calamitous downside, which is to say people who have seen -- and we're talking, you know, 80% of the labor force who have seen stagnation and outright decli