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He moved in fast. he declared war in afghanistan and iraq. he felt like he had -- of course there was september 11th, but the kind of consensus that he felt he had. i think thats dangerous. we shouldnt be talking about individuals right now. we should be talking about issues. these primaries should be about the minimum wage, about war, about the growing inequality between rich and poor, about climate change and who best will address these issues. if you gather around one person, then whatever th...

Campaigning for $15 an hour minimum wage nationwide. thank you for joining me, councilwoman. >> thank you. >> first off, this is an issue you campaigned and worked on for quite a while. i want to ask you how significant is this development in the fight for better pay for those who earn a minimum wage and for those who are trying to raise themselves above the poverty line? >> thank you for covering this issue. this is a huge and historic victory for working people not only in seattle but in the n...

Whats your favorite kind of cheerios? honey nut. but... chocolate is my other favorite... oh yeah, and frosted! whats your most favorite of all? hmm...the kind i have with you. me too. welcome back, everybody. lets get to our twitter question. it has to do with seattle and the historic vote to raise the minimum wage to 15 bucks. however, they have is subminimum wage. is it fair to pay teens less than 15 bucks an hour in seattle? and is this a federal model? tweet us your responses using #wayto...

>> at the same time, theyre electing chris christie, right? this is indicative of this possibility that some sense of economic justice might, in fact, transcend sort of our most narrow partisan battles. part of the argument amy made is if you want to legitimately shrink the social safety net, if youre not a bad person and want people to go hungry, you say i think there are too many people on these various government programs. it seems the most standard basic way to do that is to make living wage...

Times, its never happened. if you had a professor who told you turning water down to zero will never make it freeze, if you turned it down 32 times and it froze, maybe the theory is wong. minimum wage gives people more purchasing power. >> and people at the margins will spend that money right away. >> on wasteful things like food and clothing. >> ovik, you made a point earlier i want to return to on this question, which is theres the conservative intellectuals and think tank folks, people runnin...

Franchise owner doesnt have bags of money hiding behind the potato fryer, he has to do one of two things, hire lesds people or raise prices for consumers. >> but that franchise argument, which i actually -- i respect the franchise argument in the sense of for actual franchise owners they are facing some real constraints. but thats precisely why the corporations set the process up in this way. its not as though in order to run a mcdonalds or a fast food corporation you would necessarily have to f...

From congresswoman cinemas office. >> i met with people working with her. and as amy said, it is a pity that somebody has to leave the halls of congress where an issue like this should not be an issue and go to save her mother. and so we see thousands of families being deported daily. if you go to the capitol lawn, there are crosses signaling or symbolizing the amount of families that have been deported since the fast started. and this is not the country that any young person wants to live in. i...

Where it was when harry truman was in office. >> this is all against the backdrop where even good news about the countrys economic recovery is always tempered. take fridays job report. 203,000 jobs created in november and an unemployment rate that fell to 7%, the lowest level in five years. thats good news. but the percentage of working age americans participating in the labor force has remained practically static and has dropped in the past year. that means too many of the people who have given...

Medicate, the earned income tax credit program, across the line are subsidizing low-wage jobs because a large portion, maybe 40% to 50% of low wage -- we talk about working people, many of them women, are also their families participate in these safety net programs because they dont make enough money to sort of be ineligible for the program. so if youre talking about economic self-sufficiency -- so weve got to understand this in the context of pragmatism, reality, and history. and too much of th...

>> theres shall we say two sets of issues, issues where there might be tension between the base and the intellectuals and those are things like prioritizing the quality of opportunity, really focusing on things like education reform and all that sort of thing. when it comes to the minimum wage, there isnt tension between the base and the intellectuals because there is a consensus in the conservative world that raising the minimum wage is economically disruptive. [ inaudible ] ill get to that. so...