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Education Secretary Betsy DeVos might soon take an unprecedented move – using your taxpayer dollars meant for books and learning to put weapons inside the classroom. Watch Ali Velshi speak with Fred Guttenberg, the father of a Parkland shooting victim…

Lauren Green reports on the new state laws and the backlash from critics. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in…

President Trump is attacking LeBron James, but the First Lady is not siding with her husband, she’s supporting the NBA star. Stephanie Ruhle is joined by MSNBC Contributors Jonathan Capehart and Kara Swisher, and GOP strategist Rick Tyler to call…

LIVE at 6:10pm EST: President Trump signs his administration's first major Education Policy bill at Tampa Bay Technical High School. The bill, which received bipartisan support in Congress, will allot $1B in grants to students receiving technical training to aid…

Apparently someone unmoored the DeVos family's yacht, the SeaQuest, causing five to ten thousand dollars in damage. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines, insightful political commentary and informed perspectives.…

Harvard's chapter of all-female sorority Kappa Alpha Theta to go gender-neutral this fall. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news as well as political and business news. The number one network in…

Live at 3 p.m. EDT. President Donald Trump hosts a 'Pledge to American Workers' event at the White House. The president will sign an executive order that promotes job training. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service…

To prove it, University of Chicago economists Marianne Bertrand and Emir Kamenica taught machines to guess a person’s income, political ideology, race, education and gender based on either their media habits, their consumer behavior, their social and political beliefs, and even how they spent their time. The surveys were tuned and filtered to be consistent over time, which allowed Bertrand and Kamenica to measure how America’s cultural divides have evolved. Differences in social attitudes between liberals and conservatives have been widened over time, Bertrand and Kamenica found. The gap in social attitudes between whites and nonwhites has fallen slightly, but the difference in consumer behavior between races has grown. Within the surveys they analyzed, social attitudes and media habits were almost as closely linked to race as consumer behavior was. “In 1976,” the authors write, “one could correctly predict race based on views towards government spending 74 percent of the time but by 2016 this number was down to 56 percent.” Attitudes toward police violence are only a few percentage points less effective in predicting high (in the top 25 percent) income than they are in predicting whiteness. By 2016, its place as the key signifier of the country’s economic and cultural divide had been taken by Apple’s iPhone — which the researchers found to be a much clearer signifier of income than the condiment had been. Yes, high-income households buy different things from low-income ones, and white Americans and black Americans watch different television programs and movies. “For the past 40 years, liberals and conservatives are disagreeing more each year. The General Social Survey, conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago, polls between 1,093 and 3,735 people per year on their attitudes toward myriad social issues such as trusting others, marijuana legalization, and approving of police striking a man.

In a “Beat” special report, Ari Melber examines Trump education secretary Betsy DeVos’s track record of rolling back years of policy in ways that affect millions of students, including ending programs that support diversity in schools. » Subscribe to MSNBC:…

As President Trump decides to withdraw Obama-era guidance that ensured diversity in school communities, Ali Velshi breaks down what affirmative action is and speaks with the Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Catherine Lhamon, on how a blow…