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ok sir thank you very much john nichols thanks for joining us tonight sir and stuart stick around for an explorer thank you. for tonight's poverty notice we're talking about food insecurity according to a new study by researchers from harvard university princeton university and the university of warwick the more a person struggles financially the less he or she can devote brain processes to completing other tasks or words when you're struggling to survive day to day the way to worrying about providing for your family prevents you from accomplishing other daily tasks and one of the biggest worries facing poverty stricken americans that day is food insecurity food insecurity increased in most states from two thousand and one to two thousand and eleven and during two thousand and nine in two thousand and eleven seven states had substantially higher household food insecurity rates than the national average those states were mississippi texas arkansas alabama georgia california and north carolina and not surprisingly six of those seven states are right to work for less states which never r

joining us now is mary cahenry, president of the service employees international union and john nicholsondent for "the nation," thanks to you both. >> thank you. >> i want to start with you, mary kay. the fast food workers strike has become so important because it's brought attention back to the issue of a living wage. the president has proposed an increase in the minimum wage and also collective bargaining. i want to just show you, if you take a look at the impact raising the minimum wage would have would have, we know particularly when it comes to men -- i'm sorry, people of color and women, you've got minimum wage workers in 2011, 62% were women and 38% were men. we've got 2.5 million women earning minimum wage or less and 1.5 men earning minimum wage or less, so when we talk about increasing the minimum wage, we're really talking about a huge impact on communities of color and for women who are now really in many cases. >> that's right. an amazing way that you just painted that picture, and that's why i think we are -- our members are so proud, karen, to stand with these fast food w

joining me now for the rapid response panel, john nichols, washington correspondent of the nation magazine>> it is really rooted in the fact the republican party is divided between two camps. there is one camp that actually believes what ted cruz says. they have bought into a fantasy that somehow they can so destabilize government they will get what they want. the trouble is that this is a profoundly unpopular initiative, the american people overwhelmingly believe, polling shows us, that doing this will harm the economy, harm society, do a lot of bad, and so ted cruz who is supremely ambitious wants to be the next president of the united states and knows that he can't at this point be in the forefront of this yet he's got his minimal i don't knons pushio the cliff. >> how damaging? could this be really the beginning of a big split in the gop? to the paint there may be another faction to go off on their own? >> the wheels are coming off the clown car. that's all we can say. i don't think we have seen anybody in congress become so unpopular so quickly as ted cruz. that's established. that's

and joining me in the studio is john nichols, washington correspondent for "the nation" magazine.t is that is the fundamental nature of the complaint against bank of america here. >> we began looking at bank of america after we called for a moratorium on foreclosures in 2007. in 2009, we started to look at how the banks were maintaining the properties that they currently own, and comparing that to black, latino, and white neighborhoods. and to our distress, we found that in middle class and working class neighborhoods across the united states, bank of america was not maintaining the homes. grass was overgrown, trash was in the area. this is a home that was in a white neighborhood that's well maintained. you see a for sale sign, you see the lawn's mown, this is in good shape. this is in memphis. and yet in other parts of memphis, this is a newer property that is owned by bank of america, was on its website for sale, and they're going to market a home that has graffiti, broken windows, and trash around it. >> so i want to -- you know, we're looking at some evidence, the kind of evid

john berman, i love it. >>> we're not talking about the purchase price. rachel nichols the score. >>> christine, this is part of a larger trend. star athletes don't just want to be coaching or broadcasters. they want to buy into team ownership. and with some of the players making hundreds of millions more than their predecessors, that lane is open to them. schack, for one, is taking advantage. >>> one of the nba's smallest market franchises got a giant-sized boost, when shaquille o'neal bought a minority ownership stake in the sacramento kings. >> we look forward to bringing sacramento back to where it used to be. >> reporter: in an interview, o'neill said the seed was planted years ago by magic johnson. >> he came to me and said endorsements are fine, but you want to start owning things. at 18 years old, i thought what is he talking about? but as i go older f. i realized that you want to start owning things. for me it's about meeting people. >> reporter: we all remember when you were playing for the lakers what you said about the kings, especially back in 2002. >> we'r