60 Minutes 56x29 - Leader Jeffries / Work to Own / St. Mary's

LEADER JEFFRIES – Norah O'Donnell profiles Congressman HakeemJeffries, the Democratic leader in the U.S. House ofRepresentatives, who might become the first-ever Black Speakerof the House, tracing his Brooklyn roots to one of the mostpowerful positions in American politics. O'Donnell meetsJeffries on Capitol Hill to talk about his caucus' decision tosave current Speaker Mike Johnson's job, his views on Israel'sapproach to Hamas and the civilian casualties in Gaza, themigrant crisis and how the debate over reproductive rights willimpact the race for the White House and Congress. Keith Sharmanis the producer.WORK TO OWN – As the American wealth gapcontinues to widen, correspondent Jon Wertheim reports on anunlikely effort to get more money in the hands of rank-and-fileworkers. Pete Stavros is an executive at one of the biggestprivate equity firms in the country, KKR. His industry isfamously cutthroat, but Stavros has emerged as a leadingadvocate for the concept of employee ownership, which takesthe same incentives that have long helped the C-suite get richand applies them to people working factories, flatbeds andfarms. Wertheim travels to rural Illinois to find out how thismodel has impacted workers, and whether it's good forbusiness. David M. Levine is the producer.ST. MARY'S –Correspondent Bill Whitaker visits New Orleans, where two highschool seniors solved a mathematical puzzle that was thought tobe impossible for 2,000 years. Whitaker speaks to thestudents, their families and the teachers at their school,St. Mary's Academy, that has been fostering academicexcellence and boundless possibilities for its student body ofAfrican American girls since the end of the Civil War. SaraKuzmarov is the producer.