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Life-saving roll that food stamp program plays in the lives of so many americans and yet last year house republicans gutted the program to the tune of $40 billion. give us a sense where the house caucus is, where your colleagues are at in the subject of snap at present. >> unfortunately theres a war against the poor in washington. theres many of my colleagues on the republican side never talked to anyone on snap, never been to a food pantry, never met a runni hungry child, instead they think peo...

Increase. i suspect they will think if someone is working hard trying to stand out they should be fairly compensated. >> when you look at the studies on the minimum wage hike, you are losing jobs because of that in many instances. there are costs to pay. ironically the president is saying we want to make work pay. but the poll $is are diseven sentivizing. >> good to see you both. bill? bill: concerns about the chinese economy sent stock south at the close. down well over 230 points. today so far...

Number three, making sure every child in america gets a world class education. and number four, which is what im going to be focusing on today, making sure that our economy rewards the hard work of every american. now, making work pay means making sure women earn equal pay for equal work. [ applause ] it means giving women the chance to have a baby without sacrificing jobs or a day off to care for a sick child or parent without worrying about making ends meet. it means making sure every american...

>> all right, calling it part of a four-pronged effort to attack the issues of jobs, skills, and making work pay, the president signing an executive work order that will essentially change the formula for a way that will determine who is a manager, affecting overtime pay for potentially millions of americans, and the president saying that under current law, salaried workers could theoretically get paid less than the minimum wage because of the way overtime rules are construed and because of the ...

Make sure we can make sure job training programs better match up with the needs of businesses around america. elizabeth plank is the executive social editor and rich benjamin a senior fellow at the think tank, welcome to both of you. you sat with me during the presidents speech there. let me start with you, this is part of an effort thats become somewhat customariry for presidents as of late. they hit the road and take their message to the people of america, thats what were seeing president obam...

Minneapolis expecting a half a foot. rain in the northwest in california. snow in the rockies and wind in the southwest. >> upper 60s to 80s across the southwest, a cold start in the northeast, warming up to the 20s. teens and 20s in the upper midwest. a new york lawmaker had learned the hard way the power of social media. video of congressman michael grimm threatening a reporter went viral in just minutes. at first, grimm refused to apologize, blaming the reporter instead. but after a barrage...

Make ends meet, so i need everybody here and everybody whos going to be watching, tell congress to make this happen. give america a raise. making work pay means doing more to help americans all across this country, but it also means improving the economy, because one of the things thats been holding our economy back is wages and incomes being flat, means consumers arent spending as much, which means businesses dont have as many customers, which means they dont hire as much and they dont invest a...

At heart what youve been talking about, getting people back to work and making that work pay. >> but part of the list of things that congressman ryan pointed out, that he was unwilling to give up is the extension of unemployment benefits for 1.3 million people who will suffer greatly if theres not an extension. i know this is something that makes -- that unsettled -- that is unsettling to you but however, what is there -- why do you believe or is there confidence that the republicans will suppor...

Stamps. the average food stamp income has gone from $33 to $25 as part of this. you got a discussion about the minimum wage. >> you cant live on it. >> theres a whole bunch of things that come together in a perfect storm for people at the bottom and so they feel very picked upon and i think rightly so. >> joe, you would agree you got to make work pay in order to get people network. asking people to work for something they cant afford to support their family on thats not really how welfare reform...

Workers protesting this weekend and minimum wage laws being pushed in localities and states. people are really at a place where they realize, we have to pay people enough that they can afford to buy goods and support their families and not rely on the government. this should be a conservative thing, making work pay as you point out. one other thing i did get a little gift. proud supporter. they were amazing. and incredibly inspiring because they are risking their jobs to be there and to speak ou...