the founding reality is ugly and unequal. even the founders lamented. jefferson said i tremble when i think that -- even thinking about slavery. even though it met how ugly the reality is. but was also the founding dream which was about quality. we hold these truths to be self- evident. the story of america is imperfect people struggling to drag that unequal reality closer and closer to the duty of the dream. that is who we are. if you reduce america only to the dream, and say we are -- that said, look at the last century. every cost you and i care about is in the garbage can. people of color have no rights. the environment is in the trash. there is no weekend or middle class. it is horrible. there are some people who look around and say, this is fine. let's conserve this. we are conservative. other people said we are not perfect. we can be a more perfect union. they fought week after week to build a middle-class, to build equal opportunity. not to win all of it but to get back the norm. in 2000, the country is different. we you on the last century. pro

so people in more unequal societies work longer hours, much longer hours, are more likely to get intot. they save less of their income. they spend more. and all those issues to do with how you express what you're worth and the status, insecurities, and so on. >> reporter: doctors wilkinson, marmot, and others point to data that all this status seeking takes its toll. in hypertension, for instance: blacks worldwide have rates of high blood pressure similar to whites, but in the u.s., 41% of blacks have high blood pressure, as compared to 27% of whites. at least some of that might be due to inequality. and as inequality grows, it arguably exacts a price from those higher up the ladder as well, who become more and more stressed about clinging to the top rungs. m.i.t. economist frank levy. >> as the economy looks more and more unequal, then you know upper-middle-class parents are going berserk trying to get their kids into a position to get the brass ring, putting more and more time into kind of pumping up their kids-- extra courses, extra activities, and so on and so forth. and lower-inc

like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of separate but unequal. it is understates rights -- is under states' rights. after lincoln had freed us from slavery, they instituted this law, separate but equal, and the state had sanctioned it. but everything there was, even when they had things that were federal, they would put a rope up, and the white people would be on one side, and the black people on the other side. i prayed. i'm a baptist.

the third and most unequal chart is america, based on the distribution of housing and financial wealth. but bob emailed to say he thought the survey was misleading. you think inequality really isn't a problem? >> no, i think it's somewhat of a problem, but you way overstated it, there were no nuances to the report. you ignored a big source of wealth which is wealth embodied in social security. >> reporter: since we both embarked on adulthood here at brandeis, bob knows the boston area well enough to make his case in and around town. just down the road, the epoch nursing home, a venue for his main nuance. >> a good part of wealth is embodied in the right to your social security flow of income, and also to the guaranteed health insurance that you get. that's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to a typical person and you multiply that by the number of persons and you've got a lot of wealth. take a lot of the people right here at this nursing home. medicare is a source of wealth that finances their stay here. >> reporter: people like clare devane and dorothy arnold. so you two were jus

. >> we are protesting discrimination against gays and lesbians, the unequal treatment of women. >> tension is mounting. the visit will be a massive event. >> stay tune >> stay tune we will continue with the "in >> many of our viewers take in our programs like "the journal," on their laptops and smart phones. for use a -- for you that spend a lot of time on computers, we have important information for your health. singapore was the first country where researchers found a link between too much close-up reading and nearsightedness. 65% of the children in tha country are nearsighted. there are no numbers out for germany but this is thought to mirror other european countries where 1/3 of european countries are myopic. >> the internet on a smart phone and hours in front of a computer screen are modern themes in a modern industrialized nations like germany. people wear glasses. scientists are skeptical. genetic disposition plays a role but it is also true that focusing close-up can be bad for the eyes. >> the more education you get, the more you have to read to focus close up. you have to be abl

the weight was distributed unequally, which could damage the lawn. for some reason, the vip's seem to be the only group that does not understand you cannot park on tree roots. the chain of lakes were closed to parking. it looks great. perhaps it's time to start thinking about across-the-park tunnels, as was proposed a few years ago. >> here, here. >> i want to know that the general manager said here, here to the tunnel proposal. some pathways were locked for days even after the concert was done. the complaints that i heard about the sound thing -- some of the gates could have been opened and they were not. it was difficult to get near the polo field at all. we did manage to go around 1 centfence. there was a lot of equipment that was too close. there's so much fencing for this event. we could arrange that so the security areas are fenced first and the rest last, that would be great. bikes were still chained to trees and this was right next to the bike parking area. maybe we could get a person in charge of that. the cyprus at the speedway metal has be

equality, dignity and respect and not to be separate and treated as somehow different and una e-- and unequal. >> when the governor and attorney general refuse to step up and do their job and defend the constitution, the proponents have the right to stand in their shoes and defend their shoes as they always have under california law. >> reporter: and the state supreme court justices have 90 days from today to make their decision and depending upon the outcome it could either mean the end of proposition 8 in california or just another step in an already-lengthy battle on gay barrage in california. allie rasmus, ktvu channel 2 news. >> thank you, allie. >>> police at san jose state university are putting the word out about the campus assault of a female student. it happened at the administration building yesterday when the man offered her a secret and lured her to a building where he groped her. she ran away from him and got on the bus. police say the man followed her. >> he and she rode together -- not together, but they were on the same bus, all. way to the other lane which ended up at capito

but it's also, tragically, becoming more unequal by where you live.ill make that migration into the east village or the west village or over to brooklyn or my brother lives in hoboken. and they'll rent or do whatever they have to do. but people who live on the east coast and in big cities, new york, boston, washington, chicago, san francisco, they have advantages and opportunities that others do not. so i think one of the things -- and the other thing that chrystia has written about so eloquently is the movement of global migrants into big cities in the united states and across the world changing the economy and demography so radically, you know, and partly, that was behind the london riots. so i think part of the economic divide we see in america is renter, owner, and where you live. and that's overlaid ton great divide. >> which becomes basically the amplification of america as a class split society. we're talking about class divisions, ultimately here, crystal. >> right, right. and richard, i had a question related to that. we have an idea in the c

they feel the government has been insensitive to the problems of an antiquated and unequal educationystem. reforms are in front of congress. but the protesters say they do not go far enough. while it continues to bring people out on to the streets in such numbers, education will dominate chilean politics for months to come. >> you have a news of the biggest piece of space junk to fall of orbit in more than three decades. >> that is right it is a six-ton satellite that is heading for earth. even while most of it is expected to burn off as it races to the earth's atmosphere, some bits are expected to hit the ground. at the moment, it is too early to predict when and where that will be. >> from space, routes or but since pristine and desolate. but this is what you are not seeing, tens of thousands of bits of junk that we have accumulated since we first began sending satellites into space more than 50 years ago. and this one is tumbling toward earth. it is a six-ton upper atmosphere research satellite will break up into the earth's atmosphere. 26 chunks will land somewhere on earth. here

highlighting the growing gap between haves and have-nots in what is already one of the world's most unequal societies. >>alam: our huts are made of wood, we've covered it with plastic sheets, but during the rains we have problems. its difficult for our children when the water floods these paths, and when the wind blows away the plastic sheets, our homes get flooded too. the government doesn't provide us with any facilities,there is no drinking water and no electricity here. >>reporter: but far from investing in the potential growth area of affordable housing, most developers are focusing on luxury apartments attracted by huge margins. >>in the lower parel neighborhood, developers bought former industrial land for around 66 dollars per square foot a decade ago. they are now charging 10 times that for their apartments. meaning they only need sell a handful to the super rich to recover costs. >>varghese: the discrepancy in bombay is that at one level, you have people who don't have even the basic of human rights - whether it's the right to shelter, whether it's the right to water, right to foo

access to capital and that to me creates a prescription that could lead to two societies separate and unequalso to a lot of social unrest. >> pelley: your message to washington, then, is what? >> my message to washington is simply sacrifice your political job for the job that american people want you to do. that's as simple as that. be willing to be a one-term congress person. be willing to be a one-term president. be willing to be a one-term senator. take that position that the issue concerning the country are far greater than me returning to washington and starting the same old treadmill over again. >> pelley: robert l. johnson, chairman of r.l.j. companies. 33 years and a few minutes with andy rooney. the end of an era, next. had no choice. what happened right before the shooting next on cbs 5 >> pelley: finally tonight, we have an announcement to make about cbs news and one of america's best-loved journalists and essayists. for more than three decades, millions of americans have spent a few minutes with andy rooney on sunday night. now, at aged 92, andy will have his last regularly schedu

countries that are very equal very low levels of substance abuse and then the as you get to the most unequal country the most you also have the highest level of substance abuse in the world and finally here we are looking at social mobility the ability to to. to move out of your social class or the economic class social mobility very low in countries where income inequality is very high the usa the most rigid in other words in norway if you're born poor you can you can. live out of that in the u.s. if you're born poor you're going to die poor or likely is going up and we have to change that's what the change this for a tax policies our government says. crazy alert don't forget the sauce a mississippi man was in a rage when he got home this weekend and opened up his taco bell bag only to discover there was no hot sauce included with his burrito so naturally jeremy calls did what any of us do who are disappointed when take order takeout orders don't work right he drove back to the taco bell and pulled out a shotgun on the drive thru window employee demanding the missing sauce which by the way

usually happens when i listen to it it was looking a real mess and there were very rare and very unequal special forces surrounding tripoli. didn't just get lucky even though you've made for them using helicopters they would be using british weapons to crash through walls and everything in the air and we did what we probably should go to the beginning which would make sure we would not going to lose when david cameron and nicolas sarkozy visited tripoli recently they were given a hero's welcome people cheering chanting their names wanted to shake their hands saying it was all good for them or that something they wanted and expected i think just totally all judged i mean it was clearly a triumph. very soon to the from the boot when the in the civil law. you can't pretend it will come from political strong harmful reviews or through back to prime ministers going to a foreign country removing good cheer and i thought it was unnecessary and tasteless and of course weakens the authority of the of the domestic governor with this particular juncture should've been at least in a larger present t

called the equality trust and they have documented how the more unequal society is that is the greater the gap between the richest fifth and the poorest fifth the greater that gap is the the worst a whole host of social ills are from teenage pregnancies to mental mental health issues to drug abuse to homicides and right in the middle of that is infant mortality we have now become the most an equal in terms of wealth among the thirty four o.e.c.d. countries among the fully developed countries in the world is wealth inequality one of the dimensions of in for mortality that our federal government is focusing on and if not do you think it should. well i do think that being poor does certainly affect your health adversely for sure but what we're finding when it comes to infant mortality rates and in particular in the african-american community it doesn't matter your socio economic status and so the african where american woman who has a high socioeconomic status who's gone through college perhaps has a graduate degree still has a higher rate of infant mortality than a lesser educated white

official says,... problems with distribution,... waste and skyrocketing prices are to blame for the unequal access to food,... especially in poorer developing countries. a bus-sized satellite is expected to crash to the earth sometime on friday afternoon, eastern daylight time,... or the early morning hours on saturday... here in seoul. nasa issued a warning earlier this week,... saying certain parts of the satellite could slam into the earth. hwang ji-hye tells us more. a twenty-year-old satellite, the size of a bus, is expected to crash into the earth sometime on friday afternoon, eastern time... or early saturday morning in korea. nasa said earlier this week that... the non-functioning upper atmospheric research satellite will mostly disintegrate and partially melt,... as it burns up in the earth's atmosphere. the 6-ton,10-point-6 meters long satellite was launched in 1991... to gather information over chemical compounds found in the ozone layer which affect ozone chemistry and processes. the satellite has also been measuring winds and temperatures in the stratosphere and the energy inpu

shoes on a scale from zero point zero up two point five zero with five point five zero being the most unequal so as you can see the u.s. is highlighted in purple keep in mind green or blue colors are good purple and the other colors those are bad so according the gini coefficient the u.s. ranks at point four five zero which is really extreme end of the income inequality scale and to give you an idea of where the u.s. ranks on income inequality compared to the rest of the world let's show you mexico the other latin american nations in south america most of these countries are about the same or worse i keep in mind several of those countries have also just been involved in or just emerging from destabilizing conflicts now if we travel over the atlantic ocean to south africa we find several nations that are equal to or slightly worse in the u.s. when it comes to income inequality those include cameroon madagascar rwanda uganda and ecuador so that's how bad the issues become your the u.s. over the last few decades we're now on par with several sub-saharan african nations but brooke you he doesn't

you could end up with unequal doses. and be a man, take the whole pill. just be a man. >> i don't know. i don't know about allergy medications. >> it is very true. absolutely. >> don't rely on me. remember last time you lost a finger. >> can you take pills if you are allergic to league lucid? >> i think i found a loophole to get me aterol. >> you are some kind of evil genius. >> i am allergic to sobriety. >> are you saying that this is why we need obamacare so people can afford good healthcare? did i miss hear that? >> no, definitely not. if we have obamacare people will be in long lines and shortages and used to not getting good care. so keep the trends. >> so the fact they can't afford -- the fact they have to cut their doses, it is not going to continue. >> all of that for healthcare reform and against obamacare. >> fair enough. >> greg, you said you were talking about how you could tell the difference between label and generic drugs. and you said -- you said try to take an am be yuan and then take a generic am be yuan. i think that's because you took

there will also be an adjustment for unequal tariffs and other cost of imports, and any import subsidies given by the foreign nation. the adjustment is simply an economic calculation. no politics involved. it will cost the u.s. government nothing to implement it. all the administration cost the deadly are paid by the importers who paid a certified analyst to complete the form. for countries that have a wage structure in business regulations similar to ours such as canada, germany, england, there would be no adjustment. but for china, for the bear, the adjustment could be substantial. it would raise the cost of chinese imports to match the cost of producing the goods here. this will give our manufacturers a chance to compete. this fair trade adjustment will level the playing field. it will only reduce, it will not end the billions of dollars of imports from countries with a lower standard of living, such as china. trade will continue. but it will be fair. the revenue generated by their trade adjustment and by the restoration of our industrial sector grows, will balance our budget, pay dow

competitive, but today these differences have become a liability and make the cost of borrowing heavily unequal between countries. and unsustainable for many. so, again, we need to make this crisis an opportunity. we all need to stop the c cacophony and work in harmony. the institutional or collective failings and acknowledge that no european nation will thrive in isolation. germany depends on europe, the biggest trading partner for growth in jobs. i don't need to remind the industrialists among you that more than 70% of german exports go to europe. we must develop europe wide strategies for new growth. green growth policies that will guarantee our competitive advantages and create jobs. tackle acute inequalities both in and across our countries. support european ideas such as the financial transaction tax for the co 2 tax, further integrate our own resources. we must forge ahead not muddle through with the institutional points necessary to resist intensifying pressure from nngs markets. but also growing competition from the rest of the world, whether it's from the brits or elsewhere. a solutio

some democrats would rather have everybody equally poor than unequally rich. that's an exaggeration on my part but you do get that sense because of their obsession with inequality. if inequality is much higher level? who cares. >> bill: the polls show that most americans admire achievement. it looks like president obama under the guise of fair share wants to punish achievement in the sense that he is saying, look, it's you and me, the regular folks against the rich fat cats and the republicans who protect them. that is the campaign's nehemiah. there is no -- theme. there is no question about it. >> how many times have we heard this argument made over the years? how long has it been since it's really been effective? i would submit to you it's been a very long time. you may be able to ask people in a poll if the rich can pay more and say yes. should taxes be raised in a weak economy they will say. no it depends on how you frame the argument. i think the republicans frame the argument effectively in 2010. my sense about it is that this argument that the president

it is amazing to me that somebody would try to justify continuing this kind of unequal relationship. >> i agree. by the way, i made a graph that had those numbers in it this very morning. and if you actually look at when those income gains did occur for the bottom or the middle, they were about 1979 to around 1999 or so. >> i'm looking at that graph now. >> they've just gone nowhere since 1999. the middle income family, median household income peaked back there in 1999. and it's down 4,000 bucks in real dollars since then. look, reverend, at some level, i kind of want to almost talk past you and me and congressman larsen and just speak to anyone who's in that top 1% or .5% if they happen to be listening and ask them, how much is enough and how much do you care about this country and people walking into your factory and into your store and employing americans? how much do you care about retirement security here in this -- >> the ceo at google did address this. we're not talking about just some -- would they try to act like some wild-eyed liberals. let's listen to what the ceo of googl

you find very, very unequal patterns of later distribution. most of the links on gun control, one of my for example, go to sites like nra.org. and this has big implications for how people actually get news and information about politics. because what they are doing an awful lot of the time is going to google and type in gun-control and they are looking at the first page of results or even the first half of the first page of results and they're going to those sites. and the rankings that google shows to a large extent are based on the number of hyperlinks that that site receives. and hyperlinks are so heavily concentrated what you're really doing is you are channeling, your channeling citizens and voters towards just a handful of popular outlets within each site. this is a very different phenomenon than we've had before. even as the web was right open social practices have meant people tend to get channeled or the same outlets. >> what about sponsored hyperlinks? >> this of course is the way in which google makes its money. google's business mo

and that is that while we have the most unfair and unequal distribution of wealth and income of any majorn earth, you have 400 people on the top owning more than wealth than the bottom 150 million people. we also have by far the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on earth, over 21% of our kids are living in poverty. what we have physicians coming forward today at that hearing saying is, ed, if you are in the top 20% income bracket, you will live 6 1/2 years longer than people in the bottom 20%. that's called a death sentence. according to a study at harvard university, 45,000 americans die each year because they don't get to a doctor when they should and they don't have health insurance. that's called a death sentence. >> and senator, aren't the republicans, and correct me if i'm wrong, i mean, i think they're lying about these programs that have been in place for 70 years. in fact, a new poll asked americans if they agreed to the statements describing social security as a lie. 72% said the statement is not accurate. and americans support medicare just as strongly, but

but the democrats don't understand is the unequal chance someone on the left saying that they just can'ttake it anymore. this is not what we voted for and someone on the left may run as an independent candidate. and it could happen this time. and so, you're going have for people running, which means someone could win with 30% of the vote if the vote is split. [inaudible] >> yes, we absolutely -- yes, many cities and counties have it where you bought your first choice, second choice would you have a runoff system. it would need to go back to the voting system that canada has come or the user number two pencil and a piece of paper. [applause] the canadians have nearly 35 million citizens. all the votes counted within a few hours. it's the second largest landmass of the country on earth next to russia and yet they get all the votes and in like three hours. they bring to those inbred dog sled and on the backs of baby seals. and yet, it's all in little pieces of paper and it's right there and there are witnesses to count the ballots as they stack up and that is the way they should be computer

so we have a very long and ignoble history of unequal treatment.that certain extent in the military. i must say that this little post-vietnam military decide to really get its act together, and became of the institutions that american society that really were serious about promoting equal opportunity. one of the foremost institutions during the drama in your book, "the envy of the world," came out in 2002, another 12 step list. what is it about 1212 step this? transit people, in my expand comply to the things some top. and so what i decide to do in many of my books, not all of them, but in many of my books was to try to sum up a large part of this antenna 12 steps, that get to the essence of what the book is trying to do medicaid. >> host: and this 12 step list is hard truths of this new age. number one, play the race card carefully and at your own peril. >> guest: in some sense i guess part in the list the windows most personal was number four. and that was the junction to don't expect if you have a compass much of anything to support you. and it

you don't even have the state yet, but i think some hope has to be offered that it is not just to unequal states that will never be able to live side-by-side. >> i think i remember three of the four. the source of the resistance within the american jewish community i think is very understandable, which is there are people that have suffered a great deal. we have a legacy of generation after generation having enemies. we have been wiped out in various different places. i think it is rooted in our communal psyche to have a very heightened sense of security and fear and i think that emotional side of us controls the rational side at times. and i think that is totally understandable and i think we need to address that to make this case. that you are going to be more secure in reaching this agreement. you are going to be more secure if you are accepted into the national security. you will be less secure if you are a pariah state. you'll be you will be less secure if there's a majority of dallas to enhance living in your geographical area. their assistance is understandable because of the sense

you have to acknowledge we have an unequal society into different sorts of systems for kids who >> another question. about five awareness of this humanism change your political philosophy is i just cried a lot i guess i would put it this way. we the five times individual in the 80s, a more economic individualism, free had two revolutions that rule. one of this research does citizenship and emphasizes the relationship think community oriented. what can we do to strengthen communities then maybe i used to be. i wrote a book a couple years ago about the fast-growing suburbs in the far reaches of the suburbs. by now much more suspicious of them because the evidence about is more innovative and where you have changed guess i see everything now i look at egypt and tunisia come i see the the desire for recognition and dignity. and that is when you appreciate how fundamentally what happened in cairo doesn't really surprise influenced me and all those ways. it hasn't made me like that. but it has pervasive had an influence on believe that the most important decisions we make from our values. i am w