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Thanks for joining us on "the ed show." i want to get your take on the minimum wage. it is a conversation thats entered into this race in new york city. would you be for -- do you think that raising the minimum wage would hurt businesses? >> no, at this point, ed, we need to raise the minimum wage because people just cant make it. its astounding whats happening in this city. we had a recent study by the city of new york that 46% of the people of new york city were within 150% of the poverty leve...

Shrum said, they understand this is the business for the people in the business toened undermine america. and this is not good for business economically or globally. we need a food hold on logic for the americans and the broader populous will poll if in a much more significant fashion and maybe then if democrats maintain the spine or get a spine in their backs, they have stand up and articulate their vision without republicans finding a way to undermine it. >> all right. michael eric dyson, kare...

On issues that hit the kitchen table of the american bill of class. middle class families care about jobs. they care about making end meet. so i have some good news tonight. acourting to the labor department, here we go. the economy added 162,000 jobs to the month of july. thats good. unemployment rate went down from 7.6% in june to 7.4% in july. and i know im going to get a lot of communication from people saying wait a minute, ed, the real rate is this. i get all that. but these are the number...

They are out there spinning numbers, saying they are sluggish, misleading. will they ever be satisfied with any progress whatsoever? >> no. >> seems to say the goal is still the same to detroy the president, destroy the legacy, do nothing on jobs. dot american people get it? >> i think they are starting it get it, ed. you and i both know that this that set of talking points, that the same set they pull out every month. it doesnt matter what the numbers are because they dont care what facts are. ...

Crisis. our central issue right now is the challenge faced by working class, middle class, poor folks in this city just getting by. the long-term problems, yeah, theres things to learn from detroit, but thank god we have time to deal with that. >> youve got harry belafontes endorsement because of your stance on stop and frisk. from what ive seen of this, you really have been the first candidate that came out and was very defined on stop and frisk, not that the others werent, but it just seems th...

>> michael eric dyson, there is a conversation on the democratic side to increase the benefits of social security to increase the minimum wage, to reinvest and go home actually, during all. and talk about public education. the democrats pole stores have been instructed to do this, this is going up on the priority list with the american people. how can the democrats with those issues on their side, not come into the majority, in the mid terms? how could this not be a good year for the democrats? ...

Including the fact that a preferred risk policy starts as low as $129 a year. for an agent, call the number that appears on your screen. welcome back. we love hearing from our viewers. tonight in "ask ed," why is reforming the filibuster so -- why do so many people vote against their own interests? sorry. reading the wrong question. i think a lot of people, jim, dont really vote based on issues. a lot of people are busy. they have lives. they dont have time to read up and study up on the issue...