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Children in poverty. but minimum wage workers with two children, some of them do. we can address that, and by the way, right now the minimum wage is at the same real level it was in 1950. you cant tell me as a country that over 64 years, we cant have a higher minimum wage that allows more people to work with dignity. >> david, dont you find it interesting that the dogma post-clinton is pro-immigration at a time when we have a much larger supply of labor than we need, and pro free trade. even tho...

In the house of representatives right now. john boehner is allowing the judiciary committee taking a piecemeal approach on immigration reform. we worked on two bills, one related to agricultural workers, the other related to interior and border security. both bills that many immigration advocates and democrats wouldnt find tenable, but it is at least a step toward immigration reform through the context of regular order in the judiciary committee process. next week im told were going to confront ...

To focus on thinking the importation of workers is causes american wages to drop. that seems to be the point of the study. when you focus mostly on i.t., you have a tremendous surge in i.t. salaries with regard to the tech bubble. >> gregg: and then it burst? >> now we are comparing they havent had the growth in i.t. salaries and blaming immigration it may be their base is faulty. >> gregg: i was reading through the studies and making a big deal how american companies arent paying enough. these ...

United states bringing it down, mathematics, students ranked in the top three performers, two points behind the leader. in reading, nearly 34% of the worlds highest performers are american students and way ahead of japan and germany and the list goes on and on. patricia powell is founder of powell financial group. so look, here is all the time for president obama and others, is it true that the united states suffers a deficit of stem workers and students or is that just a myth? >> i dont think i...

Security. they will pay into obamacare. >> gregg: so somebody should say to microsoft pay more for your jobs, you wont have a deficit? >> that is probably true. >> so in stem workers, they receive the benefits of the education, sometimes funded by taxpayers. then they just decide to leave and essentially we are paying for skills then exported. how do we stop that? >> i think we would like them to stay, but im not sure its the worst thing in the world that people have american ideas go back to wh...

stephen moore, a good friend of the show, editorial writer with the "wall street journal." this week, as expected, president obamas jobs plan failed to pass the senate with an election in november 2012, just over a year away, are we looking at another major overhaul in congress and perhaps the white house? are we looking at a situation where voters might say throw all the bums out? >> yeah, we are. ive been looking at these numbers. you have, too. ive never seen incumbents in washingto...

Emergency unemployment has been extended, there have been no strings attached. all five times that president bush extended unemployment benefits, there were no pay-fors. so look, why dont we do this. lets pass the heller-reed proposal tomorrow. that will help them for three months. that will help these 1.3 million families and then we have time to look at what to do to extend it the rest of the year. because if you dont extend it -- >> is it smart, jim cramer, to extend this? >> have to do it. n...