If you're graduating from high school, and you come from a lower income family, you're effectively given two options. One is get a four-year college degree; two is work at a low-wage job, potentially for the rest of your life. We've got to do better on that front. We have to provide more options.

Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

I don't think that the Left has a monopoly on bad ideas. I don't think the Right has a monopoly on good ideas.

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