High-ranking campaign staff, in addition to gaining valuable political experience on the campaign trail, are often tapped after the election to staff the incoming politician’s office.

While the implication of Nuzzi’s statement concerning Morgan’s last job was that she was somehow too obscure or unqualified to be running communications for a candidate for Mayor of New York City, Morgan is not doing herself many favors with this statement.

According to a study conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, nearly a quarter of American college students meet the criteria for substance abuse or dependence and half of all college students binge drink, abuse prescription drugs and/or abuse illegal drugs.

Indyk was the brains behind the US policy of “dual containment” in the 1990’s, aimed at containing both Iran and Iraq, which, at the time, were seen as the two greatest threats to US and Israeli security in the region. Indyk was inspired by George F. Kennan’s Cold War-era ideas on containment, which advocated isolating communist countries and preventing the spread of Communism to other democratic or un-aligned countries. Kennan hoped that in containing Communism and creating separate spheres of influence for capitalist and communist countries, outright war and the seemingly inevitable subsequent nuclear destruction could be avoided.

Dual containment entailed stationing troops throughout the Middle East in neighboring countries, namely Saudi Arabia, ready to move quickly into either country, both of which were subject to US sanctions at the time.

As part of this historic speech, the President urged the Palestinians to abandon their precondition that all Israeli settlement construction halt before negotiations could begin.

When Ronald Reagan took office the US minimum wage was $3.35 per hour. Adjusted for inflation, that would be the equivalent of $8.61 today.

Actually, the use income gap has been growing steadily for much longer than just the decade preceding the Great Recession; according to a Congressional Budget Office report, income inequality has been increasing for the past fort years.

It is estimated that there are roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the US. Additionally, it is estimated that there are 4.5 million children, considered legal US citizens, with undocumented parents.