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From 7. 25. The plan was unveiled in the president s state of the Union Address last night. And today it rekindled a nationwide debate of whether the measure would help or hurt workers and businesses, and the economy. Darren gersh reports. Reporter supporters of a higher minimum wage increase point to studies showing little impact on employment after the pay at the bottom of the job market goes up. One reason is that employers may actually come out ahead when they are forced to pay workers more....

Echols recalls his arrest, incarceration and eventual release for the murder of three 8yearold boys in 1993. Mr. Echols and two other men, jesse and Jason Baldwin dubbed the west memphis three, spent 17 years in prison. Mr. Echols discusses the case and his time spent on death row at town hall seattle. Its about an hour, ten. [applause] um, thank you guys for coming out tonight. Damien, thank you very much for coming all the way to seattle. Thank you for having me. Um, you have been through some...

British protest singer billy bragg and will coffman. History has a habit of repeating itself every now and then and the songs that he was riding in the 1930s an 1940s and 50s can often have an amazing relevance for what is going on now. I think it is about time people started listening to Woody Guthrie again. And we hear the legendary folk singer pete seeger describe his first meeting with Woody Guthrie. He took over for 20 minutes and entranced everybody. I come from oklahoma, you know. It is a...

Is it the middle Class College students or is it poor adults . And i would be more nervous if it was the poor adults. Reporter so, if the evidence is mixed, changing the minimum wage is a bit of a risk. And for some, thats a reason to hold off. Im more comfortable doing it in a stronger labor market. More comfortable doing it if a fair amount of time has elapsed since the last time we did it. I would be comfortable waiting a few more years before doing this again, and then i would do it. Reporte...

Students or is it poor adults . And i would be more nervous if it was the poor adults. Reporter so, if the evidence is mixed, changing the minimum wage is a bit of a risk. And for some, thats a reason to hold off. Im more comfortable doing it in a stronger labor market. More comfortable doing it if a fair amount of time has elapsed since the last time we did it. I would be comfortable waiting a few more years before doing this again, and then i would do it. Reporter indexing the minimum wage to ...

Because he was speaking to them. I thought thats what made it so powerful. It was. How they could respond to that because he caused them out on every single point succinctly five minutes pretty much wrapped it all up. You have Better Things to do. You have a great show to do. Well be watching that. Thank you so much. A good day to all of su from here in new york. Just a bit past noon in the east is, 9 00 a. M. In the east. Deadline looming. Congress demands the Mueller Report by tuesday. The att...

U. S. mexico border, hitting the president hard on immigration. Let us free every single dreamer from any fear of deportation. It is sunday, march the 31st as we read memo after memo after memo and wait for Robert Muellers report. There were several questionable incidents involving the president s team, but we cannot prove a criminal connection. No collusion, no diggity, no doubt. Up with me this morning, legal analyst lisa green. Mar and fred hochman, former president of the u. S. Import export...

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