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A group is looking to increase the minimum wage for workers in Massachusetts who also get paid in tips.

Transparent. we also know that you can raise the minimum wage, and you can ensure there are things like one fair wage for tip workers and finally, especially after this session when we have seen women take such a hit, leave the workplace in droves, we have to solve our care giving crisis. i think that should be where policy makers dive in. it was exciting to see the biden administration announce that they were going to do things like add child care to c.h.i.p.s and other construction infrastruct...

Janina, thank you so much for being here. lets talk about this. what does it many to you to get this money, what does it mean to your kids that you have this money? >> well, i mean, i am, like so many of the 40 million other people in america who live paycheck to paycheck, this $750 a month meant for the very first time ever i was able to pay all of my utilities and my rent and still make sure that my kids had glasses and clothes to wear to school. it meant i could still have food on the table a...

January 1, 2025, and each year, it will go up by a dollar or so and it will get us to that $15 rate at january 1, 2025. and we think thats important. >> what about -- >> -- when you think about the number of individuals that are impacted and theyre going to be able to earn a great deal more money and its all going to go back into our economy and our small businesses are going to benefit as a result. >> so, couple things, though, i want to challenge you on, governor, here. one is child care, prov...

Righteous indignation and ted cruz and company, the tea party, this was all about spending. what a joke. i mean, its just a joke now. ben, i like -- i was fascinated by the time you spent in the latest issue of "time magazine" talking about tip workers. as someone who worked my way through college and law school as a waitress, as someone who took on the restaurant where i worked because they wouldnt let women be bartenders, i needed less hours and more money because i was in law school and barte...

House republicans are going to go nuts on this. >> some of them dont think their ought to be a minimum wage. you have to take it to its simplest point. if you believe that raising the minimum wage would lose jobs, it never should have been raised from the time it was a buck in the 50s and the 60s. we have created about 80 million jobs since then. no, i dont see it this way. i think theres strong support. i think we see the states moving forward. everybody knows that you cant work full-time and b...

And they were talking about how, i dont want to be on food stamps any more, i want to be self-sustaining, they talk about the dignity of work, they talk about the choices they have to make between medicine and food. thats not america. we can do better than that. americans deserve a raise. tip workers deserve a raise. everyone deserves a raise here above -- so that we have the basic dignity of work in which we reward work, and we dont subsidize business models that force people into food stamps, ...

Floor. >> what about, for example, for servers? servers make, you know, $3.25 an hour compared to a hostess that makes $7.25. we differentiate based on the type of labor. >> there is a movement in massachusetts, where workers who work for tips to bring them up to the same -- >> its actually not 3.25. i believe its $2.13 an hour for the federal minimum wage staff. >> there is a movement. >> a lot of states are, whoing to move it. massachusetts has a ballot issue that will raise it to $60% of the ...

Earning the minimum wage or lower. you know, in this-- >> and how many are earning less than minimum wage. >> can i finish. >> megyn: let her finish, let her finish. >> the tip minimum wage for tip workers is 2.13 an hour and has been since 1991. ben, the reality in this quote, in this recovery we have been losing middle class jobs and increasing low wage jobs while profits at the top have gone up and businesses are sitting on 2 trillion dollars in-- theyre not using to create wages. now, i dont...