Barbara Boxer: “I was not aware it was 84 percent, but my friend has been a leader on the whole issue of dropouts. His point is well…”

“I was not aware it was 84 percent, but my friend has been a leader on the whole issue of dropouts. His point is well taken. We are looking at $850 billion over the next 20 years, just on this tax break, and they have others they will come up with, that are not capped, also, that will give to the top people. Yet they don't want to spend money on what will really make our society strong. The point the Senator makes is so correct because I remember in the days I was in the House with the Senator, tracking the costs of a high school dropout to society every year. It was hundreds of millions of dollars in the course of their lifetime. The Senator is exactly right, if we are talking about crime, if we are talking about drug abuse, if we are talking about alcohol abuse, if we are talking about people who are not productive, who cannot hold down jobs, who feel undervalued because they don't have a high school education. These are the competing priorities. It amazes me how our friends can come with so much passion for the Donald Trumps, for the Leona Helmsleys, for the people who make all this money, and not have even a speck of compassion, it seems to me, for ordinary people.”