one is to kate tor the middle class -- cator to the middle -- cater to the middle class, those that might want to come. you do it by tax breaks, education call option, life sti amenities. the second way it to grow the middle class from below, through education, job training, workforce development. the third way, and maybe the simplest, and maybe the difficult as well is to take care of the urban basics. a city where it's jobs, public safety - they are the main concerns of the middle class and concerns of everyone else. >> if those things were in place in a better way in philadelphia, you have a larger chance of maintaining the middle class. if you have education and it's a safe city, you have a better chance of attracting a middle class residence. >> that's right, and the good news is the population has been growing. we've had an influx of young adults giving the city a lot of energy and giving it an opportunity to change the dynamics. >> good to talk to you. larry ickle is the project director at the pew charitable trust. a promise for this show is to understand what is happening to the

are middle class and the middle class people that might want to come do you that through tax breaks, providing educational options, do i that with lifestyle amenities. second way is to try to grow the middle class from below. you can do that through education, through job training, through workforce development. the third way, and maybe the simplest, and maybe the most difficult as well, is to simply take care of the yo urban basics and in any city the basics are jobs, education, and public safety. those jobs -- those are the main concerns of the middle class and the concerns of everyone else. >> put a different way if those things were in place in a better way in philadelphia, you have a larger chance of maintaining the middle class that's already there, and bringing people in, because if you got education and it's a safe city you have a better chance of attracting a middle class resident. >> that's correct. the population has been glowing going for the last six or seven years, we have had an influx of young a difficulties giving the city a lot of energy and give it an opportunity t

yet millions, millions of middle-class americans continue to suffer whether in the unemployment line or in jobs that barely allow them to get by. it's time the president realize that doubling down on the same failed policies is simply not going to work. yet, that's just what this budget proposes to do. we don't need anymore election-year gimmicks. what's needed is a new approach, a positive strategy that focuses on helping the middle class instead of appeasing the far left. president obama still got two years left in his presidency. it's not too late for him to try to make a positive difference for folks struggling to pay their bills, but he's got to let go of the left and reach out to the middle. he has to decide that bipartisan solutions are worth fighting for. if he does, he's going to find significant support on this side of the aisle. we want to work with him to get important things done for our country. we always have. we're eager to expand opportunity for the middle class and to build more ladders of opportunity for those who aspire into it. we're eager to enact policies that

class and the growth of the middle class it's job and income. >> yeah.ean, ill really worry if we lose the impact the homeownership in our economy, we'll have a cohort of people when they hit retirement age will be unprepared much worse than the numbers seem to suggest think because people don't count housing and savings people hit retirement age and haven't got the nest egg built up it will be much worse two for all of us. >> thank you for joining us professor of real estate at columbia business school. >>> philadelphia is the city of brotherly love. eagles, rocky and cheese steaks what it's not anymore, middle class, not like it used to be. we'll explainment and he's you were employed, but undaunted next the new york city cab driver who is trying to get off the road and back to his career. >> there were certain issues that i am dealing with namely lack of discretionary income. i stopped saving. in other words, my life isn't on cruise control. >> those stories and more as "real money" continues. >> every sunday night al jazeera america brings you contro

>> this would be in operation in middle school certainly starting next year. high schools there would be a bubble year of students who are currently in algebra 1 and obviously you are not going to ask them to repeat algebra one if they are doing one. that bubble would be there and full implementation in 2012 starting in 2015. >> so i have to say that i have been hearing a lot, i posted the paper on my website and i have heard almost exclusively and quite -- from parents who are opposed from this change. i'm not under any elusion that this is a small number of people. but i do think that we need some better messaging to our families who are really really concerned. this subset of families who see their kids as high achievers and see their kids as needing accelerated course in school and see this as taking way something from their kids. i'm just sort of wondering what you would say to those families who basically see this as my kid is already in an eighth grade honors class and they say they are bored because the teacher can barely differentiate and how is my ki

compared with you. >> there is middle class sensibility. >> you know, unions aren't middle class is absurd. unions are clearly in the middle class. >> it was the public sector. >> i know. move on. why? >> ben just said, i don't know, i think the white house is saying red flags. it's one thing for people to like you a lot. to argue a lot. to be traditionally on your side, but as this thing goes on, where are the millions of people who were supposedly clamoring for this? why did they lose a special election in florida? what is going on that democrats should be afraid? >> union leaders are trying to get meetings with the white house and officials in the administration trying to unchange what they don't like about this health care law, so far, they're not getting anywhere. >> in the meantime, unions are not just protesting the health care law, some are protesting a $100 million donation. it's a weird story the reason why the forbes gang is getting ready to protest their protest. they're wonderful guys. when they protest, it's not like maybe your image of a protest, but still, they just rip ope

that teacher also teaches the middle school one math class. my understanding the students in the cantonese and others center a language class neither of which is an elective. the korean immersion needs the same instruction and i ask you mandate a meaningful pathway for koreans >> thank you. next speaker, please (clapping.) >> i have any one son. >> excuse me, sir. >> your name. >> jay. >> i don't see you on the list, sir may i speak. >> okay. and there was another speaker that wasn't on the list and is that the gentleman that spoke. >> that was phillip young. that name isn't open the list either. thank you very much precede two minutes, please >> thank you. okay. i first time thank you for your commissioner but i just the first time i came to america in 1995 i speech english not well, to learn english is not easy neither it korean but i'm talking about the common sense. this is america not africa not in an under developed country. i think about the vial the teacher is not a super man. because like ii said can you imagine a person in the fifth

throughout the middle east, christians are fleeing for their lives.hat country does bds want churches to divide -- divest from? israel. the one country in the middle east that protects christians and the right of worship for everyone. [applause] throughout the middle east, and womens are jailed are denied their most basic rights. which country does bds want to sanction? take a guess. israel, the only country in the s, aon with a free pres progressive gay rights record, and where women have presided over each of the three branches of government. [applause] this -- and anyone can verify this -- you have to wonder, how could anyone fall for the b.s. in bds? [laughter] [applause] well, you should not be surprised. run history people believe the most outrageous, absurd thing about the jews. oft were using the blood children to bake, that we were spreading the plague throughout europe, that we were plotting to take over the world. say, how can can educated people today believe the nonsense spewed by bds about israel? that should not surprise you, either. so

my name is susie loftus and proud that i went to elementary and middle school. i have a first grader and third grader. what i'm here to share is really an appreciation of assistance superintendant who came to our school last night and has some important goals and data and policies where you want to go. our request really is that in fact oring those decisions and understanding what this program means not only to children that are in the program but kids like mine who benefit who spend time with those kids who cheer them on, it affects an entire community that is truly inclusive. it's something that benefits all of our kids. you can see the number of people we have packed in here on short notice. if there doesn't have to be a rush to this, take some time. come out to the school. have you experienced what we experience everyday and we believe this is something that you will want to replicate and you will see the incredible impact it has. our request is to slow it down and give us more time to show you about this program and we think you will agree that it's an abso

i've been reporting and writing on american middle class for two decades, the need to preserve the middless and jobs to sustain it. i wrote the best-selling "war on the middle class" in 2007, fearing then what has come to pass now. the loss of jobs, pay, many cases the homes of our middle class and those who aspire to be part of it. in "upheaval" i tried to persuade the leadership of the republican party to succeed and to sustain the american dream. they must reach out to middle class voters and it appears some of them are finally getting the message. here are two influential republicans at cpac over the weekend music to my ears. >> we have introduced legislation to rescue america's working families from the middle class squeeze. to make it more affordable to raise and educate their kids and afford health insurance and a home of their own. we have an agenda. >> here's the truth. under this president and harry reid the rich have gotten richer, the poor have gotten poorer and the middle class are being squeezed like never before. lou: those are republicans, republican leaders, mcconnell, fa

, preaches against middle-class ness, avoid those middle-class virtues. how do we get to be middle-class without middle-class virtues? someone has to explain this to me. contemporary liberalism, let me make a leap. the closing chapters of the book anticipate the election in new york city. i am not going to promote the book that way. no one will then read it. the election in new york city has put into power and every major office people very close to service employees international union and the health care workers. bill deblasio, the new mayor, the new speaker of the council, both work for s c i yield 1199. you couldu 1199. you could go on down the list. liberalism changed when it lost the american majority. i talked about in this in the philosophical crisis of american liberalism was in a wilderness and discovered a new middle-class. public sector unions. public sector unions, like liberals, because like liberals they want to extract from the state. private-sector unions, one of the key -- i don't know how many of you follow chris christie and i have no

lbj, of course, paid little attention in the middle east, everything to do with the middle east muste subject to events in southeast asia. when he did pay tension a, he viewed the region like truman, a place to win jewish votes and u.s. elections. i've got three cones in the cabinet, lbj said, no one does more for zionist rail than i will. in 1965, u.s. ambassador to israel wally brasher warned the idea which now towers over the arab rivals, must be presented for making any new annexations. such argue in 1965 do damage to u.s. interests. if israel attacks, u.s. imposes merciless sanctions. not enough to contain the arabs, but we have to contain both sides. well, in the 1967, six-day war, israel launched the surprise attack on egypt, jordan, and syria, quadrupling territory and creating 3,000 new refugees alongside the old ones. far from sanctions israel for the attack on the uss liberty, johnson sat on hands entrenching the forest fire -- forever war still sputtering in the territory. instead l rolling back as ike had done in 1956, johnson approved them as well as the sale of sales t

this debate of the middle class is 49,800.he middle class is about being able to own your home, not rented, being able to send them to a park and not worrying whether they will be beat up or mugged, be able to send them to a local school where if they do well they would get a chance to go to college and if they get there you can pay for them to be there, and in the meantime if your parents are in trouble you can help them in the hope is you will never have to have your children help you. that's what middle class is about. that's who we are. [applause] folks, the concluding comment i want to make is don't listen to any of those folks who tell you america's best days are behind. i mean it sincerely. if you did a poll, and i asked you who is going to be the leading economy, united states or china? that's not patriotism. that's reality. america is better positioned than any other nation to dominate in the 21st-century. china, god love them. i spend a lot of time in china and a lot of time with president ching. they don't have enou

the country, the growing income gap has to keep you up at night as we continue to hallow all the middle class and fewer and fewer people able to pay for the services and even the reduced services that we need from the government, is that worrying you? >> step one is getting the government to stop doing those things which damage people's ability to do well in the middle class and move ahead and make more money. it is difficult to start new businesses at the local and state level. >> should we consider tax increases if they resulted in better incomes or more jobs removing the people from government assistance and making more people net contributors opposed to recipients of the government's aid. >> pink unicorns if they existed, sure, if they existed but raising taxes does not create jobs or opportunities. we tax the rich because they are saving their money. when you raise the taxes on higher income people you are taxing the capital and taxing not consumption and slowing the economic growth for everyone and the biggest group damaged by slow economic growth are people that don't have jobs.

demo crews will dismantle it from the middle outward. workers have been focusing on separating the translever truss, that middle section and signature of the old eastern span. crews have been preparing the past few weeks, shifting the tension from the middle of the bridge outwards towards the canilever arms. that way they don't have to worry about it compressing or falling down as they work. >> they will use a torch. and they will cut through it. it takes minutes to cut through one piece of steel. >> reporter: it will require several cuts and pieces of steel removed. caltrans says it will probably be a month before drivers notice a gap between the two sides. once that suspended span is gone, what you're looking at now, crews are going to remove each side of the cantilever and that should all be gone by spring of 2016. >> what about that $12.6 million, what is the money for and how come the increase? >> reporter: frank, what we heard is caltrans wanted to hire more employees and rent more equipment to dismantle the bridge from both sides

raising middle tax is hurting the middle class. you can hire billions of people to figure out not how to pay these guys. they are moving their money. they know what to do. middle class people don't have that kind of resources. and they get stuck with the bill every single time. it backfires. i don't know why they're not getting it. the middle class is getting pushed away. they keep expanding the lower income for people to the point it doesn't make it worth getting a job. you won't qualify for that. are you giving money away and taxing the middle class. >> gary b. you are really taxing small businesses, too, they are the engine of job growth. we are talking about jobs. unemployment. what is going to help the economy get going again? what are the cuts going to do? >> brenda, i think it's easy. i prefer to phrase it like this. it's either we keep the money or the government keeps the money to spend. when moem most people think about it, when we give the money the government to spend, what do we get for it? we are all in favor of movin

the institute for research on middle ian policy host -- middle eastern policy hosted this panel on the influence of pro-israel groups on members of congress and during elections. this is about 50 minutes. >> thank you very much, congressman funnily. we are just honored to have you with us today. thank you so much. and thank you for everything you've done over the years. [applause] i'm janet mcmahon, i'm the managing editor of the washington report on middle east affairs, and i'm going to give you a slightly different picture about the united states congress. our magazine has been covering pro-israel political action committees or pacs since 1986. and over the years, i've gotten a lot of calls from people who want to know how much their congress person got from aipac, the american israel public affairs committee. and i immediately tell them that aipac itself does not make campaign contributions. and i think it's very important not to accuse aipac of doing something it can truthfully deny, because that makes it too easy for pick to deflect the argument and let itself off the hook. this i

ground is a middle ground that strengthens the middle-class. that's our economic imperative in this climate. and so we will talk with republicans and we'll meet with republicans but we are interested in a budget that is balanced, not on the backs of the middle-class, that makes cuts but to oil companies subsidies not to college affordability. if the republicans want to engage with us in that kind of big, bold compromise, one that strengthens the middle-class and doesn't ask the middle-class to sacrifice more so that the special interests get more then we're happy to have that conversation. >> congressman, it's your job to get people to run for the house. is the affordable care act a tire around the democrats' neck? and i ask that because i keep hearing about fixes. i keep hearing about a little reluctance by some democrats to go home and run and run hard on obamacare. what's the instruction? what's the best playwright now? it would seem to me it's very obvious. >> well, the only reason that republicans are obsessed with the repeal of the afford

to be considered middle class. these are findings of a new study. the family set aside little or nothing for a rainy day making them vulnerable when and if hard times hit like a medical emergency or lost income. of the 38 million americans who live paycheck to paycheck. 13 million with an income of $20,000 a year. these poor hand-to-mouth households tend to be younger and often live paycheck to paycheck for years because they have a harder time improving their financial situation. here's the thing, 25 of the 38 million households aren't what you would call poor at all. not only do they earn around $50,000 a year, they've got assets, $50,000 on average. $50,000 annual earnings puts them pretty close to the medium income for all households in america. so these wealthy poor tend to be older. they live paycheck to paycheck for shorter periods of time on average two and a half years but they face the similar stress that poorer households do, spending all of their take home pay on food, shelter, transportation and other

we've got middle-class workers who rely on overtime pay.ve got business owners who believe in treating their employees right. because it's the right thing to do and because it's good business. thanks to the hard work and resilience of americans like the ones were here today, our economy has been growing for a number of years now. our businesses have created more than 8.5 million jobs over the last four years. the unemployment rate is at the lowest it has been in over five years. ways, the trends that have battered middle-class families for decades have gotten worse, not better. those at the top are doing better than ever. wagese average family, have barely budge. too many americans are working harder and harder just to get by. we have to reverse those trends. we have to build an economy that works for everybody. not just for a few. the basic restore notion of opportunity. that is at the heart of the american spirit. opportunity for everyone. the belief that it does not matter where you started. work hard willing to and act responsibly, you

we have to save the middle class and middle class american jobs is what it's all about. to focus on this middle class town that has very few elected official willing to step up. how do you feel when you get laid off, when you knows these market pressures are the cause of all of this? >> it's a big hit to your pride and i'm a pretty straightforward guy but a couple of days i look and knowing i was going to get laid off and i was on my couch looking at my budget and all of my bills, you know, almost in tears because i was looking at, you know, how am i going to make this bill and this bill work and how am i going to do this? and it's pretty rough. ♪ >> reporter: it's friday night in middle america here in lorraine, ohio, at the american legion. these steel workers work together, they play together and they solve problems together. and as a community, they have each other's back. a south korean agreement putting them on edge. it's on the mind of everyone. >> i hear the orders are slow mostly because foreign markets were pushing pipe into our -- into our country and into the

for many hardworking middle-class families, child care is necessary but also expensive. for millions of families in the united states, child care is their single largest household expense at nearly $15,000 per year. in wisconsin, the cost of child care for an infant is approximately 40% of a single mother's median income. two-parent families can expect to spend more than 10% of their income on child care. further, in wisconsin, nearly a third of children receiving the child care development block grant funding are under the age of three, making this a truly sound investment in those crucial years of early life. the child care development block grant act is a bipartisan effort to reauthorize, reform and revitalize the block grant program by strengthening federal safety standards and placing a greater focus on the quality of child-care programs. this investment in affordable quality child care will help more than 1.5 million children, including over 30,000 children in wisconsin. mr. president, i'd like to once again thank my colleagues for working in a bipartisan manner to

"the middle east with 2/3 of the world's oil and the lowest cost. it's still where the prize ultimately lies." arguing that oil is the fundamental building block of the world's economy, the future vice president says "governments and the national oil companies are obviously controlling about 90% of the assets." "companies are anxious for greater access there" he says "but progress continues to be slow." >> they sought oil that was just not accessible because of political circumstances. oil that if it could be accessible was abundant and easy to market. >> when dick cheney gave that speech in london and he was talking about the industries' interests, later he was talking about the government's interests. but the conclusion of both of those was the same, we need to get into the middle east. >> in the summer of 2000, iraqi leader saddam hussein and his state-run oil company control about 10% of the world's oil reserves. >> experts say saddam has terrific leverage now because with demand for oil high and u.s. supplies at a 24-year low, the 2 million bar

the flight to acquire enormous precisi precision. >> we're literally in the middle of nowhere, the middlethe desert. some of these maneuver, they're just about 18 inches away from each other. >> the squadron uses desert training to sift out any potential errors that could occur. >> sometimes you're only flying 50 feet. >> reporter: the risks are incredibly high. 26 pilots have died since the blue angels were formed almost 70 years ago, giving this job 10% fatality rate. many are due to loss of vision or consciousness. training is necessary to avoid accidents because of what's called the g force, the force of gravity on the body when they perform some of these steep fast turns. >> you'll start to see your vision start to go away and you need to have the core strength to be able to squeeze that blood back into your head. >> now it's my turn. it's 8:00 a.m. now. so they say it's perfect timing. perfect time to fly. >> my pilot greets me with a series of techniques to combat the incredible pressure i'm about to endure. >> i'm going to see squeeze legs, take a deep breath, ready, hit it. bam.

in the middle east, that is usually a losing bet.should always hope for the best, but in the middle east we have to be prepared for the worst. despite the best of hopes, international peacekeeping forces sent to neville -- lebanon, gaza, sinai, and golan heights, a did not prevent those eras from becoming -- areas from becoming armed strongholds against israel. if we reach in agreement with the palestinians as i hope -- i don't delude myself. that peace will most certainly come under attack, constant attack, by hezbollah, hamas, al qaeda, and others. experience has shown that foreign peacekeepers, foreign peacekeeping forces, whether they keep the peace only when there is peace. when they are subjected to repeated attacks, those forces eventually go home. as long as the pieces under assault, the only force that can be relied on to defend the peace and defend israel is the force defending its own home, the israeli army, the brave soldiers of the idf. [applause] i will reveal to you a secret. this position may not win the universal pra

with the middle of the century, 84 years. a lot of thoses a answerments in the first half of the 20th 20th century had to do with public health, sanitation, driving down the awe -- appallingly high death rate of infant. most of the more recent advances have to do with extending the life of older adults and some people think we ain't something nothing yet. there's a drug that's going to be invent, computer chip instant vend it. all of our bodily systems will keep going intestily. whether that's-do indefinitely. whether that future is utopia or nirvana, we are getting older and every country is getting older and it's a combination of longer life spans and longer life spans throughout human history beget lower fertilities rates but a in the old days people had a lot of kid because they weren't sure all of them were survive and you had kids because you needed someone to take care of you when you got older. the message now is you don't need that many kids and kids aren't expensive and that many family farms in new york city or mex

and that's elementary and middle school and high schools. we have been working with 9 central departments in a collaborative we call triple c which is a collaborative and we meet with them two times a month. these are folks from the various departments such as special education, multilingual department, early education and others. we also have been working with 222 participants in an on going way this year. so through different professional initiatives that we have in humanities through content literacy and science and both social science and an approach to literacy that includes professional development that we have on saturday through schools through workshops, writers work shops and content literacy. >> thank you very much. it's a great honor to be here. we really appreciate this. we want to frame the why and how in terms of where we are in this implementation process. we always like to ground the work in why this work is taking place and this we really emphasize this as you've heard in mathematics as well this coherent learning and there

thunderstorms in the middle of the country. i would love to tell you, you have a beautiful weekend coming. it will be in the 50s and 60s but you'll need the rain boots. >> it's time to do spring clean i ing. we should say the guys who were blown over, guess where the cameraman was? safe inside a vehicle shooting out the window. >> smart guy. >> word to the wise. thank you so much, bill karins. >>> we're waiting for the president and pope's first meeting. the motorcade is rolling. we'll have that for you live. and a pink planet the size of our universe is discovered and a huge decision that could change the face of college sports forever. you're watching "first look," on mississippi nbc. msnbc. ifyou may be muddlingble withrough allergies.nger... try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin. because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. muddle no more™. oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tasting little o's ma

a changing middle east in syria. saudi arabia is still the influential power helping the rebels right now. it is key to bringing an unified position with middle east talks. and riyad is worried that the u.s. is backing down of iran obtaining nuclear weapons. they said of that promise and president obama, when that kind of assurance comes from a leader of a country like the united states we expect him to stand by it. there is an issue of confidence. we're joined from beirut, joe is ceo of a gulf region think tank. my friend, good to see you again. let's dive in a number of issues here. the two leaders are talking over a number of regional concerns. let's start with syria. what can these two men agree on with respect to syria? what is it, in fact, that the saudis want from the united states? joe, can you hear me? joe? oh, we don't have him. >> no, i can't hear the program. >> we'll try to connect with joe in a moment or two. my apologize. >>> ukrainian presidential candidate ti tymoshenko said tht yanukovych left ukrai

but stores that cater to the middle class are hurting. every one of our big economic challenges depends on sustaining and growing the middle class. and just briefly i'll tick off a few areas where we can boost that cost. the first is innovation. whether it's the tax code or other action, investment in innovation and research can help turn creative start-ups into thriving businesses with more good paying, high skilled jobs. that's why i plan to move quickly to extend a number of expired tax provisions, such as the research and development credit. over the long term that credit, through comprehensive tax reform, could be made even more useful for american start-ups. the obama administration's budget includes a proposal for business tax reform. i believe a broader approach which comprehensively overhauls our broken dysfunctional code would do more to give all americans, especially middle class, the opportunity to get ahead. we're going to work in a bipartisan way with the administration closely on that matter. a second priority ought to be s