Imagine what you can do to the dignity, the hope and the future of that child if we can get them reading back at grade level. And some interesting studies show It could add $1.7 trillion to the economy because these kids can upscale, excuse me, go on to school, technical school, college, all of the things that are open to people who can read at grade level. So those are big issues, and there's a lot more of them we could talk about. Medicare is going to go into a deficit spending here in about four years. (09:35–09:51)
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