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Eastern for americas news headquaters. now back to forbes on fox. >> welcome back. lets go over to seattle where these workers won their fight for a $15 minimum wage. thats the highest in the country. but now, a group of franchise business owners are fighting back with a lawsuit to stop it. were going to take it to our guest. rich, you say we all better hope they win. how come? >> you know, seattle has been in a boom and now at the very apex of their boom, part of which includes this great touri...

Pump, especially with summer here? here to discuss that is stuart varney. so what does it mean? >> let me make this very clear, we are all paying for the presidents policy mistakes. the retreat in iraq, the chaos in iraq will be paid for by us at the pump. you just gave the numbers. $107 per barrel for oil. thats the highest in close to a year. it spiked in the last couple of days. the stock market way down. 200 points down in the last two days. it will be down again a little bit at the opening ...

Lowest performing schools in the country. and joining us is our reporter tramaine who covers education e reporting, and excellent reporting. and you were there in south dakota and can you help people by the numbers understand the enormity of what the families are facing on educational loan. >> the delivery of the education, what is obstructing these kids getting the kind of qua quality education that we think that americans should have is a tangle of bureaucracy, and you have a tangle of it in t...

Happen, at least until the border security issue is dealt with. the obama administration says its violence in places like honduras, el salvador and guatemala that are driving these kids to the united states. murder rates there are among the highest in the world. the children are leaving their families and m coming by themselves, including a large number of pre-teen girls, to look for relatives already in the united states. once they arrive, the law says that the kids are turned over to health an...

Seattle is going to $15. the state of washington is $9.32. michigan will be phased up to $9.25 over five years and some states are down at $7.25. what do we know from an economist standpoint about the effect it has when you can be at $15 or $7.25? >> it points towards the need to raise the minimum wage more broadly. $7.25 an hour has not kept up with the cost of living. states will see 27 states that will have the minimum wages above the federal level. cities like seattle are going higher. the h...

. we heard a lot about the progressive wave sweeping america. senator elizabeth born in massachusetts and deblasio in new york city. have you heard of ed murray? hes the mayor of seattle and led the city to approve the highest minimum wage of anyplace in the country. they approved a $15 wage floor to take effect over the course of the next seven years, more than twice the current national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. they are in washington state with a $9.32 minimum wage that is the highest ...

So tammy, im going to start with you. jehmu, youll get the final word. so tammy, reportedly a company in seattle, now charging customers a living wage surcharge so the company can pay for the increased minimum wage. are you concerned, tammy, that the foreshadowing of who would pay for a federal minimum wage hike? >> yeah, look. there is a lot of repercussions to this. obviously their wage is the highest in the country. and there is a lot of pushback on this. one, youve got this 8.25% living wage...

>> seemed like it was sort of almost a willful respite from the stuff that was going on out in the world and in real life. >> here is a bulletin from cbs news. there has been an attempt as perhaps you know now, on the life of president kennedy. he was wounded in an automobile driving -- >> in the early 60s, television was by and large seen as something as a back water to print journalism. and even to radio. but the kennedy assassination was the moment that television journalism came of age. >> w...

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