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Efforts achieve incredible success. thats what america is all about. americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. >> the big pivot that the white house and the democrats are right now engineering in american politics is toward the issue of how much people get paid for their work. the minimum wage issue levered away from being just a washington issue to now being a political fight that can be fought all over the country. with anyone...

Efforts achieve incredible success. thats what america is all about. americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. >> the big pivot that the white house and the democrats are right now engineering in american politics is toward the issue of how much people get paid for their work. the minimum wage issue lefered away from being just a washington issue to now being a political fight that can be fought all over the country. with anyone...

Democrats who support it in any one region more than other parts of the country? >> yes. this is what is so fantastic about this issue is there are not big regional differences. if you want a southern strategy which were always talking about republicans, we need a southern strategy as democrats, well, the minimum wage is your southern strategy because southern voters vote on this issue even more than northern and midwestern and western voters. there are more minimum wage workers in the south bec...

United states capitol, a nice fire burning behind and looking remarkably refined. great. what are your policy proposals to make that dream better for everybody? heres what she said. we have plans to improve our education and training programs. >> details to come. >> dot, dot, dot, dot. thats all you have to tell the american people, that youre going to do instead of what barack obama is going to do? get off the sofa and go back to the apple orchard and maybe you can understand what minimum wage ...

Good. 64% of minimum wage workers are women. 15.3 million women would get a raise if the minimum wage were raised to $10.10. womens take home pay affects men and american families. why is there resistance to this issue? >> the corporations are backing that, what rand paul is saying, the top americans that are so wealthy, they dont understand what it is like for the middle class and the lower class in this country trying to make ends meet. i talked to women all across this country working two job...

With him on this and now they want? is it pay peace meal issue where the white house says weve made progress and then it stops here and doesnt spread to laundry workers, workers in the hotel industry across the country. those are the larger numbers of these workers. its whether this is symbolic policy but good politics for this president and how it will play out for so many workers? it will help the workers at the white house. the broader group of minimum wage workers are still struggling to get...

These racial barriers, get children in the good schools, get women the education that they need, provide some resources and loans so that women can pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. if we dont deal with racism, we cant deal with the impact of gender on women. >> so lets talk about some of the specific things that are going on. two-thirds of the minimum wage jobs in 2011 were held by women. even though they represent only 40% of the overall labor force. president obama, they want to raise the...

Solutions here, right? more than 70% of low wage workers get no paid sick days at all. you have a minimum wage thats no longer a livable wage. and if you look out on the political horizon, the prospects of these are going to be uphill political battles. do you think couching in gender helps at all? >> i dont know if it helps politically. it is the truth. the way the bottom wrung of the american wage scale works is it is a very female space. women as you cited are a majority of minimum wage worke...

So often boys emulate their fathers. on so talking to boys as a mother about respecting women is one thing, but if men come in and say its important, men say, you know, equality in a relationship and lifting women up is good for men and why that is, that goes a long way. i think women, as a womans nation, we need to include men in this or we are always going to be just half the population talking to ourselves. >> get them while they are young. >> at any age. >> get them at age but certainly whil...

The difference. >> so, you know that there is going to be a higher minimum wage that will be addressed by the governor of california, thats also something the president would like to see. youre asking for yet another one and just from political expediency, do you believe its even possible? >> i really think so. for example, in california the cost of living is about 30% above the national average. and i commend the governor and state legislature for raising the minimum wage and passing legislatio...