The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Talking Dems - Michael Bennet Fields Questions from The Daily Show Audience

Episode Date: August 19, 2019

2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bennet discusses his plans to improve public education and ensure access to affordable housing in the wake of gentrification. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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you get your podcast. There's someone right there with a hand. Yes, do you have a question? I'm a teacher, and I just like to know what you would do as president as Secretary of Education was, what are the most important things to you and putting some true? What do you teach? Fourth grade. I don't want to talk about the math problems.

I was just so happy that I got it right. I can't tell you. First of all, thank you. Thank you for teaching the fourth grade. Thank you for being a social worker. I would like to put somebody in that job who's walked in the footsteps of the teachers in this country and also the kids in this country that are living in poverty. For reasons that I won't get into when I was first running for this job, I often got accused of not being qualified to be in the Senate, which was meant to hurt my feelings. And people would say, here's why you're not qualified, because you've never run for office before before, and I'd say, you know what I wish people did before they went to the Senate,

teach in a high poverty school for 10 years of your life. So you can understand what's going on in the thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiolk. thi. thi. thi. thi. I thi. I thi. I's, thi. I's, thi. I's, thi. I's, to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to to be to be to be to be to to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be to be, to be to be, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I's, I'm thi. I'm tho, the. theateate. theateateate. theatea. theatea. theateatea. theateatea. I'm toe. I'm toe going on in this country. And on just the teacher pay question, which you didn't ask, but I'll just mention, we got to understand people that we are living in a country where we have inherited a system of paying teachers that was developed when we had a labor market that discriminated against women and said you can have two professions. One is being a teacher and one is being a nurse. And the whole design of it still imagines that humans are shackled to that labor market. And it doesn't exist anymore. And until we figure that out, we're never going to pay teachers as professionals that they are.

We're going to continue to lose 50% of them in the first five years of the profession and this achievement gap that we have in this country will never be solved. One of the reasons I'm running is I'd like to be the education president. We've got time for one more. Yes sir, in the time. Hi, I think my question from Vladimir. I work for city council, and one of the questions and positions always ask is regarding gentrification that seems to be a thing nationwide really across the big city. And, but we understand that, so their concerns always in terms of affordable housing is that the guidelines in criteria to determine affordable housing doesn't match, right? So what they'll say is, well, what they claim is a low income, is

high income, right? For all that, especially in New York. And we understand that that's something that's linked to the federal government. So how, how, how a fix you would have for that? First, let me say that I linked to the federal government. So how can you fix you would have for them? First, let me say that I used to work for a mayor, and one of my jobs was going to city council on Monday night to get yelled at by the city council. And the first night I ever got back from that,

my kids were very young, and they'd seen it on TV, and all they wanted to know was how did you get inside the television said and what did you do to make those people so mad at you? I know a little bit but I think there are three things. One, we got a fully fund housing vouchers in this country. Half the people that are eligible for housing vouchers in America don't get those housing. Second, we have to build a lot more housing in the United States and that's and that's and that's and that's and th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th, and what th, and what th, and what th, and what th, and what th, and what th, and what th. And what th. And what thi, and what thi, and what the the the thi, and what thi, and what thi, and what their, and what their, and what their, and what their, and what their, and what their, and what their, and what their, and what their, and what their, and what their, and what their, and what th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And th. And, and what th. And their their thi, and what their their their their their their theat, and what their their their their theateat, and what their their their their their their their th build a lot more housing in the United States, and that's going to require much better alignment between the federal programs that you're talking about and

local government's decisions on zoning. And all of us in America are going to have to suck it up and realize that we're going to need to have more density in this country if we're actually going to have affordable housing. And some of the most progressive cities in this country are the least embracing of that sort of housing. And third, a point that you didn't ask about, but it's related. We've got to figure out how to address evictions in the United States of America, because we are destroying families, the ability of people to hold a job and hang on to housing, because too often we use the remedy the remedy the remedy the remedy the remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy remedy the remedy the remedy the remedy the remedy the remedy the remedy the remedy, to to to to to toe toe, toe, toe, to, to, to, to, to, toe, their, toe, toe. Wea, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, and, the, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, I.e.e, I.e, I, and, and, and, and, I, and, and, and, and, and, and, and,e,e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e.e, and, and, their, the families, the ability of people to hold a job and hang on to housing because too often we use the remedy of eviction when a less onerous remedy could actually

make the difference. So thanks. Ladies and gentlemen. Senator Michael Bennett. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The Daily Show with Covernoa, ears.

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