contributor heather mcgee. okay, heather, we now have essentially blown the cap on what people can give in these elections, what does that mean pragmatically for our elections process? >> it means that in some ways the lights are going out a little bit dimmer on the grand experiment that is the grand democracy, so the first amendment is -- the entire constitution is actually in service of something pretty bold and hard to maintain which is a representative form of government. and point out how much the entire dominance of our politics of our wealthy people, millionaires and billionaires means our entire system is skews toward their -- one out of every three minutes they're caught talking to people that can write big checks. that means that the minimum wage, which the president is going to be talking about today don't get a fair hearing because there's research that shows that wealthy people are not in support of a high minimum wage that would allow people to escape poverty. >> you have shown sort of the distorti

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heather mcgee, president of the public policy organization demos. thank you both for being here.e listening to our discussion with david kennedy on just how dire the situation is in schools. you heard about that report that we've all been reeling in response to about inequality in the education system. how related is -- i'll start with you, heather, is this educational inequality early on to the long-term effects we've seen chronicled in this urban league report? >> i understand one of the things that connects these two issues, disproportionate locking up of 4 and 5-year-olds to the babies to the inequality in the job market is something we shouldn't be ashamed to talk about it. which is our often unconscious prejudices and stereotypes. i have a thinking that a call to action for your viewers should be to go on the harvard university website for the implicit association test. which allows you to just go and find out how hard it is for you to make a connection between a darker face and a positive word. and what it's found is that over hundreds of thousands of people who have taken