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No minimum wage increase. you were listening and i saw you shaking your head there. what were you shaking your head at? >> the initiative that raises the minimum wage to $10.10 and thats key. if you are a waiter and a waitress, you are paid lower and the tipping are supposed to bring you up to a minimum wage. that is a very unstable way to live. >> the idea of a waiter or waitress is going to make the full minimum wage and tips on top of that. >> tips are in addition what they make. >> thats a h...

Learned the wrong lesson from internal gop politics. >> i think learning the wrong lesson is evident no more clearly than the fact that herman cain is again considering running for president. herman cain, if youre listening, please run for president. brian, thank you as aultz always. >> thank you so much. just minutes from now, seattle is set to become the latest place to vote on a major minimum wage increase. and guess what, rich business guys are into it! the details coming up next. ♪

Over seven years. the move will give a raise to 100,000 low wage workers in seattle and cut the poverty rate from 13% to 9%. one of the architects of the increase is multimillionaire venture capitalist nick hanour. responding to critics, he told the "l.a. times" we capitalists love our customers to be rich but our employees to be poor. you show me a low wage country and ill show you a hellhole. $15 may seem high but the calculus is in part based on inflation and the value of what workers are act...

What do you say we start with minimum wage, since they cant file their taxes properly. come on! its the focus. their priority needs to be here, not on the middle class and not on how low wage workers in this country file their taxes and who is helping them. now, the committee was concerned about, you know, how much money the treasury was losing because middle class americans didnt have a qualified tax preparer. you know what? thats just playing around on the edges on the treasury problem. the wh...

They get it. mostly weve got to move some of the republicans on this. i would point out the last time we increased the minimum wage in this country was around a republican president. it was under george bush. >> i know. >> theres no reason they cant work with us to get this minimum wage increase. were going to start that noise and start pushing on this next week in the united states senate on the floor and youll see a vote. >> mayor, thank you for joining us. im going back to my old saw here. no...

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Patience with an investigation that has gone nowhere, theres not a scintilla of evidence that supports that the irs has targeted conservative groups. they were concerned with groups perhaps not meeting the qualifications for not for profit status. maybe there was some awkwardness that was done. but the reason this is such a manufactured scandal and they continue to pour gasoline on it in order to try and keep it going is because they want to distract the american people from the fact that americ...

The two new york ones, everybody gets a raise. the new jersey one, no. no minimum wage increase for you. and so, ergo, politics. the "new york daily news" posted this editorial this afternoon. "chris christie says drop dead." "governor christie is giving airport workers the shaft despite governor andrew cuomos timely push to raise their salaries. get lost says christie who is stomping on his own constituents." also from the "daily news" today, "for thousands of low-paid airport workers in new yo...

Poll say they want to hear about job creation, early childhood. down at the bottom was minimum wage. thats what the president is leading with. >> the fear that goes along with raising the minimum wage at times is that it forces some employers then, especially in smaller markets and businesses, to then cut back on the people they employ. there is a great ere right now. some believe if he doesnt get congress behind him on the federal minimum wage increase, then he will sort of set the table here a...

And the minimum wage. are those that most resonate with the voters at the moment? >> if you look at a poll, thats not where most voters heads are as far as the top issues of the day. they will talk about jobs as number one. the economy over all, but when it gets down to breaking down on minimum wage increase, while popular politically, it is not something that drives voters. it depends on the poll and how you ask the question. i think democrats do so opportunity in some of the issues in specific...