region, of course appellation, the historical coal belt -- appalachia, the historical coal belt, and the midwest as well. talkedwhat we have not about his natural gas and how closely this is correlated to that. talk about that correlation and what that means for coal power. >> natural gas has been more damaging to coal than environmental regulations. the shale boom has unleashed waves of natural gas we would not have been able to imagine five or 10 years ago, and that has kept gas prices close to or below two dollars for most of the year. with the energy information administration came out saying this week is that we will see more demand for natural gas from fertilizer plants as well as chemical industries, and that should raise prices a little bit higher and make coal more attractive to be burned for electricity. david: give us a sense of what coal looks like in the future. we her about new ways of burning coal. what is the coal landscape in five or 10 years? >> we have to go back about five years when coal was dominating the electricity sector. we're talking a billion tons ann

appalachia whose father was killed in a, when he was five, been working very, very hard to support the family since he was a little kid. he has a 3.8 grade point average and 700 sat and has really done outstanding job under the circumstances. who should get extra consideration and that situation? i think the circumstances dictate it rather than the race. rell -- now, no question in our society today that there are probably more people in the circumstances. that that would be the way to make the determination rather than on reese alone. >> one final thing when it comes to this topic mike colleagues looked at the numbers lynn melling when it came to graduation rates with minority students and a want to show you that now. us students are graduating from high school at a higher rate than ever before. the us department of education says the nation's high school graduation rate 81 percent for the year 2012-2013 school year the highest level in nation's history. according to numbers compiled with the national center for education statistics graduation rates vary by state and students race. na

mother in chicago or detroit. mrs. clinton: we went to appalachia as well. the delta and appalachia. a lot ofint out that republican governors are not expanding medicaid, including here in south carolina. that is leaving hundreds of thousands of poor people, black and white, just to the mercy of the emergency room. there is no system for them to the elite of the health care they need. if you compare, and i was in louisiana not so long ago, the prior democratic governor in arkansas expanded medicaid. got a special waiver from the federal government to do it in a way he could get through his legislature. hundreds of thousands of poor arkansans got it. in louisiana they would not do it so hundreds of thousands of people were left out. i don't know how you justify that, especially since the federal government is paying 100% of the cost until in a few years it will take 90% of the cost. we want people to be well. you talk about this recent study i mentioned where you have middle-aged white folks killing themselves, getting addicted to drugs and alcohol, not getting help from mental illness

county level. arkansas, along with the other states in what's been called greater appalachia, have counties where close to 20% of the population is on disability. that is an astonishing figure. one in five residents on disability in these places. that also means that disability is the largest source of income in those counties. on the other hand, other counties in arkansas -- particularly the fastest growing ones -- have rates of disability well below the national be average. the evidence is pretty clear. there's an inverse relationship between the rate of disability usage and population growth which most economists would agree is a good proxy for economic vitality. sadly, our 20 counties with the highest rates of social security disability suffered a population decline of more than 2% in the last four years alone while the rest of my state grew by more than 2%. by contrast, the 20 counties in arkansas with the lowest rates of social security disability usage have boomed with population growth of more than 4% over the same time. this correlation is too striking to ignore. the same

exchange which has worked very well and for a relatively poor state in appalachia they have done well at getting your people covered. when you have access to health care, you're more likely to have healthy population which will save you, mr. governor bevins. tom: what we love about you is he actually do medicine. tell us about what you have learned with be a formal care act and obstetrics? are we having a healthier birth process for impoverished people in baltimore? think, that has not changed with the affordable care act because of you are pregnant, you're eligible for medicaid before the informal care act. so there was decent access to affordable care, of structured care before. so that is one area we have not seen a difference. inhave seen a difference getting people medicines they need and controlling chronic conditions, because a big problem with health care costs in america is 5% of people cost 50% of the medical spend. diseaseshat is chronic that were not well controlled. with the affordable care act and more access to insurance, people are getting the medications they nee

. mr. martin: they went -- sen. clinton: they went to appalachia as well. let me just point out that a lot of republican governors are not expanding medicaid, including right here in south carolina. that is leaving hundreds of thousands of poor people, black and white just to the mercy of the emergency room. there is no system for them to be able to get the health care that they need, and if you compare -- i was in louisiana not so long ago, and the prior democratic governor in arkansas expanded medicaid, got a special waiver from the federal government to do it in a way that he could get it through his legislature, but the fact is that hundreds of thousands of poor arkansas residents got it. across the border in louisiana, their governor running for president would not do it. hundreds of thousands of people were left out. i do not know how you justify that, especially, since the federal government is paying 100% of the cost until, in a few years, they will pay 90% of the cost. because what people to be well. -- we want people to be well. you talk about this recent study that i mention

appalachia have counties where close to 20% to have population is on disability. that is an astonishing figure. one in five residents on disability in these places. that also means that disability is the largest source of income in those counties. on the other hand, other counties in arkansas, particularly the fastest growing ones have rates of disability well below the national average. the evidence is pretty clear. there's an inverse relationship between the rate of disability usage and population growth, which most economists would agree is a good proxy for economic vitality. sadly our 20 counties with the highest rates of social security disability suffered a population decline of more than 2% in the last four years alone, while the rest of my state grew by more than 2%. by contrast, the 20 counties in arkansas with the lowest rates of social security disability usage have boomd with population growth of more than 4% over the same time. this correlation is too striking to ignore. the same trend is also true nationwide. buchanan county, virginia with 22% of the population on social s

great war on coax he says we've depression in appalachia created by the president's zeal t on climate. it appears the head of one his state's -- doesn't agre agree. coal can no longer compete against cheaper alternatives like natural gas and wind power. koacialtiocoal will continue tog with or without the clean power plan. it has nothing to do with the president. if we believe that we can just change administrations and this issue is going to go away, patton said, we're making a terrible mistake. he said in the article -- and i'll ask unanimous consent to have the article appended to my remarks as an exhibit -- with our without the clean power plan, the economics of alternatives to fossil-based fuels are making inroads in the utility plan. companies are making decisions today where they are moving away from coal-fired generation. the debate largely at this point in time has been lost. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you. mr. patton is not alone. in september financial giant goldman sachs released bleak -- well, that was the second report. they have rele

to go, we sat down at the computers. i was in appalachia in southeast ken kentucky. and the ceo tells us to sign in. and we sign in the form. and he says we all sit down, he says all right. you see that button on the bottom right? push it in. so we push it in. the computer turns on. we sit there for about 90 seconds. then a prisoner says -- starts playing with the mouse. and he says, yo, c.o., if you push the -- shut the [ muted ] okay. we sat in silence for another 35 minutes. and at the end of about 40 minutes in, the c.o. says, y'all remember that little button on the bottom right? well, push it again. and then get the [ muted ] back to yourself. but since we had all signed in, they could tell the b.o.p. that we had successfully completed a computer skills course, and now the prison could get their stipend from the federal government for having done that. so that i would say was sort of the indicative of the amount of rehabilitation going on. >> so that's where i want to go now is with programming. that it does happen, right? it's supposed to be part of the federal system, th

businesses that go in, hard hit coal counties. such as appalachia and new york, some of the other coal-producing countries. at the same time, spend $30 billion on infrastructure, rebuilding highways and on education. the problem is, $30 billion isn't going that long of a way, if you're talking about all of those programs. how is that going to filter down to the individual in those coal countries probably going to lose their job under new policies that will be proposed by hillary clinton? maria: you know, interesting. dagen, this package is being framed as a move to help communities that have already been hurt by the decline of the coal industry. does it address the fundamental issues? and of course the most recent epa regulations? >> the coal industry has in part been decimated because of regulations from the obama administration. maria: right. >> i will point to somebody that jeb bush -- i would say one of his shining moments in that debate on tuesday night, when he said, i will repeal every regulation that president obama put in place. i will start with regulation of the internet, th

month before release, a dozen of us got to go, we sat down at the computers. i was in appalachia in southeast kentucky. and the ceo tells us to sign in. and we sign in the form. and he says -- we all sit down, he says all right. you see that button on the bottom right? push it in. so we push it in. the computer turns on. we sit there for about 90 seconds. then a prisoner says -- starts playing with the mouse. and he says, yo, c.o., if you push the -- shut the [ muted ] okay. we sat in silence for another 35 minutes. and at the end of about 40 minutes in, the c.o. says, y'all remember that little button on the bottom right? well, push it again. and then get the [ muted ] back to your cell. but since we had all signed in, they could tell the b.o.p. that we had successfully completed a computer skills course, and now the prison could get their stipend from the federal government for having done that. so that i would say was sort of the indicative of the amount of rehabilitation going on. >> so that's where i want to go now is with programming. that it does happen, right? it's supposed

billion.jumped to $339 keith in alabama, a republican. .aller: i have from appalachia i just want this president to know -- people to know what this president has done to us. every one of our jobs is gone. i am from coal country and we are struggling. made allal government these claims, but you kill a deer on your own land to feed yourself and you go to jail. it is getting ridiculous. our culture, our way of life, it has devastated us down here. i just don'tes -- understand these policies he has had. i don't know how we can eat down here. that is how bad it has gotten. host: robert, richmond virginia, democrat. good morning to you. caller: good morning. i would just like to address what the previous caller was saying about energy and the price of gas. host: are you there? caller: the price of gas is actually below two dollars a with the democratic policies, which obviously is not true. and as far as the energy, if we actually it that -- is creating jobs in a different sector. color justs mentioned about coal, that is a very's -- very small part of our consumption now. and the detriment

piece of research which provides, we greater appalachia have counties where close to 20% to have population is on disability. that is an astonishing figure. one in five residents on disability in these places. that also means that disability is the largest source of income in those counties. on the other hand, other counties in arkansas, particularly the fastest growing ones have rates of disability well below the national average. the evidence is pretty clear. there's an inverse relationship between the rate of disability usage and population growth, which most economists would agree is a good proxy for economic vitality. sadly our 20 counties with the highest rates of social security disability suffered a population decline of more than 2% in the last four years alone, while the rest of my state grew by more than 2%. by contrast, the 20 counties in arkansas with the lowest rates of social security disability usage have boomed with population growth of more than 4% over the same time. this correlation is too striking to ignore. the same trend is also true nationwide. buchanan co

coming up to work in the factories as were whites from appalachia in the south, and that tension filled two bytes over housing and jobs. one of the sore points in detroit history which 20 years later have a was trying to overcome. one of his first moves as me was to appoint a progressive police commissioner george edwards, who had been trained at the united auto workers as a progressive labor person, who had been active in detroit politics for a long time, and who's on the michigan supreme court, had persuaded to resign from it to take the job as police commissioner. the single idea of trying to improve race relations in detroit. so edwards met martin luther king at the airport when he came for the rally, and his first words were, you will find no police dogs or poses here. detroit was embracing king. they went down to near wayne state university with a staging area for the rally and it was amazing. ever 150,000 people gathered on woodward avenue. marching down eight lanes all the way downtown to the hall where king delivered his first public major iteration of the "i have a drea

program trying to battle overdose deaths in the coalfields of apa l appalachia. in closing, this just one solution. obviously the real solution sol, the important ones are still around prevention. why do americans get prescribed so many opioids than folks in other nations? what do you do with prescriptions where the quantity given is too big? there are a lot of issues that we have to solve. but there is this bit of good news, that naloxone saves lives and if -- it's easy to administer, it doesn't have a negative side effect and if we can broaden access to naloxone to those who have been prescribed opioids, we can save a lot more lives. i'll just conclude by saying that there's a dad in northern virginia, don flattery, who has been very public about the loss of his son kevin who was a 26-year-old graduate of u.v.a. in 20146789 h 2014. he talked about his son son, the advantages he had, but then he fell into the bottomless pit of opioid -- prescription opioid addiction and he perished in 2014. what don said is, "i feel we need to keep personalizing. we're talking about my son, your daug