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They are aware. this is an issue thatses residence nant for more people today than it was in reagans time. to joshs point because the issue is more salient now because we are in a movement moment, we are likely to see people willing to register and vote and turn out around the issue if a politician is guaranteeing to raise wages. >> this is the question i have. a complaint if im overtaxed is similar to a complaint which is my wage hasnt gone up. you have to tell a story about how you will do tha...

Into united states -- some argue there are significant negative effects on people who competing with them at the lower end of the wage scale. and i think there is evidence for that. but there are also others who argue that actually if you look at it very, very carefully theyre comp my men mealimentar other workers. fiscal effects can be positive or negative, nature of your welfare state, the nature of your tax regime. in many countries immigrants tend to the to be successful in being employed. i...

Their -- >> same corporations that hire the middle class. >> i am glad you brought up the middle class. >> enthused with this when they start getting laid off. >> theyre not going to be laid off. >> i love the fact you brought up the middle class, it is middle class families that suffered the most under president obama. theyre making less than they did before president obama took office. further, jobs have been added at the top and bottom of the wage scale. >> i have to stop. sorry. look at the ...

Economic news. 9.7 million jobs added. 52 months of private sector job growth and a battle in congress should we move the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. thats what the president wants. these gentlemen are going to $15 an hour. harry, you first. how has the wage scale impacted your business and how have your customers reacted? >> i think in -- as far as the customers are concerned, ed, i think they respect that. it certainly has helped business in that regard. more importantly, it impacts the li...

And that is where the jobs are right now. and you are always tend to have a unique take on these jobs reports, and what is yours on this one? >> and the professional services one, which is a grab bag of secretarial work or janitorial work, but it is not great and meaning that it is not particularly high-paying job health care jobs are orderlies and not registered nurses and the lower end of the wage scale in health care services, and this is like the past few months if you think that the economy...

$11.7 million. minimum wage workers got just over $15,000. that gap is enormous, patricia. >> that gap is enormous. that gap is, frankly, wrong. i think most americans believe that. when you look into detailed polling about right track, wrong track, when most people believe that the countrys on the wrong track, a big piece of that is because of what they see, just an enormous disparity between people. again, everybody who is going to work, going to work every single day and just a massive pay in...

Me. >> it is good for women, it is good for men, it is good for husbands, good for male children of those women. republican hypocrisy on this is really staggering. i respect ruth marcus. but againvy another liberal. kind of tone policing the democrats because maybe the rhetoric has gone a tiny bit too far on this. but the truth is republicans are against anything that could make this gap smaller. it seems to me one of the west best things you could do is raise the minimum wage. republicans say o...

Conservatives on raising the minimum wage. give me the elevator pitch. im a conservative billionaire, we end up at the same conference. whats your pitch for why i should be behind a minimum wage increase. >> its a simple idea. >> right now the government spends over $250 billion every year on social welfare programs for the working poor. people who work but cant afford to survive on the paychecks, if we raise the minimum wage to a reasonable level. all those costs will be cut, and the taxpayers ...

Whats your pitch for why i should be behind a minimum wage increase. >> its a simple idea. >> right now the government spends over $250 billion every year on social welfare programs for the working poor. people who work but cant afford to survive on the paychecks, if we raise the minimum wage to a reasonable level. all those costs will be cut, and the taxpayers will save money. i think it makes much more sense for businesses to pay their own workers rather than to shift the burden to the america...

Comparison of states that did have a higher minimum wage did much better on the employment front than those states that didnt have as high a minimum wage. so its been documented and its empirical that in raising the minimum wage, you also increase wages or the wage scale for others to have an increase as well. >> there are lots of studies and there with is lots that go into the unemployment rate. gary, what do you say about that? >> look. ill see your study, ill raise you two studies. you know, ...