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Will certainly take that to heart. >> i just read romans 12 to refresh my memory. one piece is if your enemy is hungry, feed him. feed the press. and a different part of the bible coming to mind. the one about daniel in the lions den. bernie sanders heads to lynchburg, virginia. he is set to speak to the christian liberty university. that is certain to be a more skeptical crowd than the ones he faced over the weekend. at three big events in south carolina, crowds cheered sanders proposals and ...

>> the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is a starvation wage. you can do the arithmetic as well as i can. it just does not add up and that is why we need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage. $15 an hour. >> sanders proposing free tuition at public colleges and creating jobs with infrastructure. officials in northern california say homes have been destroyed by a fast moving wildfire near sacramento. thousands of residents forced to flee their homes. the so-called valley fire consumi...

A big win for millions of fast food workers in new york. theyre going to get a raise, and a big one. the state just approved a controversial minimum wage hike requiring large franchises to way workers $15 an hour. but employees may have to wait to see some of that extra cash in their paycheck. cnns chief business correspondent christine romans is here to tell us why. >> theyre going to phase that in. it wont be right now. it will be $9 will be the minimum wage for fast food workers by the end of...

Transition in american culture about women being the heads of households. tell us about the nature of the households, the financial bur n burdens and why they care. >> 40% of households have women as the sole or primary bred winner. more than half of households in this country, the womens wages are essential to the ability of that household to keep its head above water. the reality is, two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women. these are workers who dont get health care benefits. they are wor...

Place? that transcends yesterdays discussion. thats an issue i hear in my travels all over america. i was in nebraska yesterday and i met with a group of business leaders, labor leaders, grassroots advocates, elected officials who led the campaign to raise the minimum wage in nebraska through a voter referendum. the basic point they make is $7.25 an hour in nebraska, you cant feed your family. you have to go to the food pantacy after 40 hours. newt gingrich works with bill clinton on raising the...

2014 to 2015, $18,943. minimum wage comparisons, $3.35 in 81 and 82, 2014 and 2015, $7.25. you look at the numbers, the math is never going to be tlohe. >> no, and there is an increasing number of teens that dont want to work over the summer, and the takeaway from that is kids are lazy, but i think its the opposite. the expectation of kids are huge. theyre hired more than ever before. theyre enrolled in course work over the summer. theyre doing unpaid volunteer work, unpaid internships, which, b...

$7.25. >> cant live on that. >> what a joke. >> time for business before the bell with brian sullivan. what you got? >> well, just a quick thing there. you know, it wasnt just ian ziering. i had a very brief cameo in sharknado 2. i was running out of citi field met stadium. i think i was eaten. this is going to go down on the water front and how green the grass grows, some of the classic films of all time. >> what wrong with you? >> what are you talking about? >> he was in one of the sharknados....

Historically, had one of the stars of sharknado on this show last time. >> we had ian -- the guy. ian ziering. hes zuper nice. >> very nice. >> that doesnt really make a difference though. okay, more news real news. a $15 minimum wage is coming for fast food workers in new york. a special fast food wage board officially recommended the increase for workers employed by chains with more than 30 or more stores nationwide. new york city workers will see their wages increase to $15 the soonest by dec...

Companies raising wages, walmart is one of them ikea some of these, do you think thats encouraging some people to get back into the workforce who might have said before im not going to work for $7.25 an hour. that doesnt make sense. now youre talking about $10, that makes more sense for my economic situation. >> i think it also shows because some of these companies are doing this not the federal government because they cant get that through washington but these companies are doing it because the...

Which is now the minimum wage its been the minimum wage. they will not raise the minimum wage, i think this is going to be an election issue, because most people around this country do feel it is a moral issue. its not just an economic issue. people deserve to have more than $7.25 an hour. >> you know republicans like michigan governor rick snyder are actually trying to stop cities from raising the minimum wage on their own. quote, yesterday snyder signed a bill banning downs in michigan from se...