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A fight about dignity. its a fight about whether everyone in this country is going to be, if they work full time or have a decent job. >> former labor secretary joins demonstrators today at a mcdonalds in oakland calling for a $15 minimum wage. protesters planned for more than 2,000 cities to have a protest. protesting and striking minimum wage workers have really shaped the political conversation around income inequality. a conversation that is now somewhat remarkably happening in the president...

Making 78 cents on the dollar or much less if youre a woman of color, and you end up with a level of frustration there is a sense that the system is not being fair to american families. because hen we bring home the bacon, were filling gas tanks and refrigerators for our men, as well as for our children. >> now, you know another real womans issue is raising the minimum wage. because 56% of minimum wage workers are women. their average age is 35 years old. and 28% of them have children. what woul...

Students. >> this is the most appalling decision ive ever seen. i dont see how you send educators to prison. >> and now they face each decades in prison typically reserved for mobsters and organized crimes charges that they were convicted of. and developing now, accused murderer robert durst is back in court this hour. the latest on his hearings and well get an exclusive look at final hours before he was arrested. plus, mcdonalds agrees to give a raise to thousands of minimum wage workers, b...

This a dramatic escalation in their antiabortion agenda. that little nugget thats in the antihuman trafficking bill is really astonishing. what it does is it says to trafficked victims, survivors of trafficking they cant get access to healthcare if it involves abortion care. rape is epidemic in the trafficked community. its outrageous. thats a huge escalation. you put that together with the budget that has just been proposed by the republican leadership which slashes programs that women dispropo...

Wages in general have not been rising and so even if the economy has recovered, randi, wages have not been raising. in washington they havent been able to raise the federal minimum wage so states are doing it instead. >> so you look at the minimum wage going up in states, how does it compare with the rest of the world? >> the federal minimum wage is $7.25. denmark -- much higher taxes -- but in denmark $20 an hour. germany $10, france $11.66. all industrializations with a lot higher minimum wage...

First job and it allowious to have a beer after work and play softball. this is a narrative that has found quarter in republican circle, but its a totally false narrative, is it not? >> its completely false. i wish the woman, for example, who have children working at kentucky fried chicken making $8 an hour which as we know is 75 cents higher, more than the minimum wage and trying to figure out how theyre going to feed their families at the end of the month would feel about that comment since th...

Floor, but should democrats and progressives be focusing their efforts on the state and local level? >> i think we have to have a two-track conversation. absolutely we have been active and c.a.p. has been active because were going to see real results there. i do think theres a connection. the more we talk about tissues at the federal level, the more the president is nighting for them, democrats talking about them on the campaign trail. it builds pressure at the state and local level. thats one o...

>> how important is this issue in terms of motivating women? do you think they are responding to that message about minimum wage? >> i think they are. 2/3 of workers who work for the minimum wage are women. that means when youre working for minimum wage you can be working 40 hours a week and dont even make it to the poverty line. this impacts women and families and children and women really get that. we had so many minimum wage workers who showed up at each one of the different events and told u...

Obamacare is good for you? it was great? >> i would take issue with the idea that this is narrow casting about abortion and contraception. those issues matter. but what i see democrats doing which is important is really talking about womens issues as economic issues. >> absolutely. >> pushing for an increase in the minimum wage which would benefit women because they make up two-thirds of minimum wage workers. i never understand why republicans who oppose pay equity acts dont say, are rhetts coor...

Me. >> it is good for women, it is good for men, it is good for husbands, good for male children of those women. republican hypocrisy on this is really staggering. i respect ruth marcus. but againvy another liberal. kind of tone policing the democrats because maybe the rhetoric has gone a tiny bit too far on this. but the truth is republicans are against anything that could make this gap smaller. it seems to me one of the west best things you could do is raise the minimum wage. republicans say o...