Katy Perry Roars Into Iowa For Hillary Clinton At Jefferson-Jackson Dinner

Superstar Katy Perry rolled into Des Mois Iowa yesterday, joining Hillary and Bill Clinton as the warmup act for the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson Democratic dinner. Former president Bill Clinton addressed the crowd in his first public speaking engagement supporting his wife.

"Look, I don't want to talk long, because I have never been the warm-up act for Katy Perry before.  I am well aware I am the warm-up act." This awareness didn't stop the former president for adding just one more thing to his speech before bringing on Katy Perry. The pop star sang "America the Beautiful," "Firework" and "Wide Awake"  -- all in honor of Hillary. 

Of course, Perry performed "Roar" before getting down to business. And then Perry got down to business: bringing out the young vote in 2016.

"How many of you are going to be 18 next year, before November? Are you going to vote? Because you know you have the power, right?" Perry told her fans, according to Billboard. "Listen, you have so much power and this is going to be one of the most important elections in over a decade.

"So much change can happen. Let's go Hillary!" 

In America: Decline of the Working Man

HopeTracker| The Economist reports that among the Group of Seven economies (US, Japan, France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Canada), America has the lowest share of ‘prime age’ males in work. Today just over 80% of those aged 25-54 have a job. In the late 1960s 95% were employed.

This decline in employment is most pronounced among the less educated and blacks.

If you adjust official data to include men in prison or the armed forces (who are left out of the raw numbers), around 35% of 25- to 54-year-old men with no high-school diploma have no job, up from around 10% in the 1960s. Of those who finished high school but did not go to college, the fraction without work has climbed from below 5% in the 1960s to almost 25% (see chart 2). Among blacks, more than 30% overall and almost 70% of high-school dropouts have no job.

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