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Now is the time to rise from segregation. >> thousands of people are flocking to the national mall in washington to commemorate a pivotal point in the fight for civil rights. the march happened exactly 50 years ago today. wi the head of the naacp spoke to the crowd earlier today. ben jealous spoke about economic justice and referred specifically to a planned strike tomorrow by some minimum wage workers. lets listen. >> and so as we go home today, let us remember that the dreamer was also a doer....

Minimum wage workers in this economy. again, theres a level that would hurt the economy, but theres something going on also which is that the government already redistributes wealth to lower income people. and this is sort of mandating that a company does it with their especially excess profits. however, if we did that and also lowered the earned income credit, it could actually balance out. >> im sorry, jonas. weve got to pay our bills but you all earned your salary with that one. thanks, guys....

Or my husband will eat at work so me and the kids can do that. we shouldnt have to do that, we live with my mom, we shouldnt have to do that. were both employed. >> how do you respond to the argument that a firm like kfc will make -- this is sure you can find someone like shanita and put her on television, but this is not representative of people who make minimum wage. the minimum wage is teenagers in supermarket jobs. if you take away that ladder, youre going to take away all these people that ...

>> does that happen? >> it does happen. sometimes i eat at work so my husband and my kids can eat. or my husband will eat at work so me and the kids can do that. we shouldnt have to do that, we live with my mom, we shouldnt have to do that. were both employed. >> how do you respond to the argument that a firm like kfc will make -- this is sure you can find someone like shanita and put her on television, but this is not representative of people who make minimum wage. the minimum wage is teenagers...

Or my husband will eat at work so me and the kids can do that. we shouldnt have to do that, we live with my mom, we shouldnt have to do that. were both employed. >> how do you respond to the argument that a firm like kfc will make -- this is sure you can find someone like shanita and put her on television, but this is not representative of people who make minimum wage. the minimum wage is teenagers in supermarket jobs. if you take away that ladder, youre going to take away all these people that ...

Obamacare. the measure meant to help workers. the owner of just cupcakes joins us. nice to see you, carla. >> thank you so much. >> greta: tell me the impact. i mean, i know a little of the story is that you have a number of employees and what, about ten employees? >> well, we have an about 25 employees overall, yes, ten minimum wage. >> greta: and the ten that are minimum wage, whats the expectation? what are you going to do about them? >> you know, theyre great workers and we love having them,...

Screenings, things like that. these are the programs that dont fall under the sacred cows that generally cant be touched when there are massive budget cuts. these are the programs people tend to brush off to the side. theyre smaller, not biggies. theyre not as sexy as some of the others. they tend to fall by the way side and hurt women. >> you know what, as youre talking about that, what is so sad is they will be disproportionately affecting lower income women. when you talk about some 70,000 ki...

Here where this could play out over months where if republicans -- democrats are already starting to frame this in terms of 2014. if republicans can get put in a similar position, you might have enough joxzs from republicans and potentially vulnerable house districts that say, hey, put this on the floor. we want to vote. that might be the end game. six months from now or something. >> the minimum wage question is -- its something that everybody understands, right? i mean, most people at one poin...

And that is to eventually pass it on to the consumer. now, the median income in the last four years, as you know, being the braveheart of business that you are has gone from $54,000 to $50,000. people already have less money, so now youre going to ask them to pay more for what they pay at restaurants, even fast food and quick service restaurants? it doesnt work that way. the second thing that theyre not taking into account is that most of the companies that hire a lot of minimum wage workers, th...

Reflected just that. and of course it is the identified problem of the republican party, no doubt about it. im joined tonight by terry oneill, president of the national organization for women, and also with us this evening clarissa martinez, director of civic engagement and immigration at the national council of la raza. great to have both of you with us. >> thank you. >> based, terry, on what you saw today, what are your hopes for a second term? >> i am very hopeful, actually. we need to pass e...