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Wage. that may be true, but there are people who are 50 cents, $3 above minimum wage. they will be pushed up too. that kind of raise is significant in their lives. >> any way, republicans have short changed the working poor when it comes to the issue of expanding medicaid. medicaid which is people with the poverty level. you get the working poor to get health care as well. republicans in 23 of the 50 states are still rejecting a provision to provide health care to poor people at basically no cos...

Unemployment assistance and food stamps in january before moving to a debt limit showdown come springtime. joining me today, washington bureau chief of mother jones, david corn, vice president of heather mcgee, maggie haberman. i feel like i started that segment on such a high note and ended in the dumps with coal. heather, this part of the budget scenario and the work ahead for congress always gets ignored, which is the needy, the working poor, and the working class. the democrats have a choice...

The king crab legs, chris, remember back in tip oneills day, king crab legs are the new cadillac. remember the -- >> i dont know. as reagan would put it so delightfully, the young buck waiting if line with the food stamps buying the gin. wasnt it that, mayor? i think he had some image along those lines that he favored. was it t-bone or was it gin? i dont know what the hell it was. something along those lines. by the way, i dont think you can buy booze with food stamps, anyway. >> no, you cannot....

Want to work again when we know you announce a job, i saw one of these lines, when a job was announced, you have people around the block -- >> in every big city. >> -- to get the job. >> and they stand there all day. >> they do. people actually want work. most people, 99% want work at the center of their lives. the king crab legs, chris, remember back in tip oneills day, king crab legs are the new cadillac. remember the -- >> i candont know. as reagan would put it so delightfully, the young buck...

Theyve coordinated outreach efforts by unions and non-profits. some of them have poor area, pockets of poverty, but people who are in pockets of poverty generally have medicaid going for them. so are these people who are working poor, who go to work but dont have health insurance? that the areas that were looking at now? >> thats exactly right. some of the organizers that weve a talked to said theyd go to a neighborhood and almost every person theyd meet was uninsured and eligible for obama care...

People in these hotspots. theyve coordinated outreach efforts by unions and non-profits. some of them have poor area, pockets of poverty, but people who are in pockets of poverty generally have medicaid going for them. so are these people who are working poor, who go to work but dont have health insurance? that the areas that were looking at now? >> thats exactly right. some of the organizers that weve a talked to said theyd go to a neighborhood and almost every person theyd meet was uninsured a...

Tackle inequality if the economic pie is shrinking or stagnant. the fact is, if youre a prerogative and you want to help the middle class and the working poor, youve still got to be concerned about competitiveness and productivity and business confidence that spurs private sector investment. and thats why from day one weve worked to get the economy growing and help our businesses hire. and thanks to their resilience and innovation, theyve created nearly 8 million new jobs over the past 44 months...

This idea that maybe part of who the public is talking about are lawmakers. lets get together and enjoy gods blessings, well, actually, well need resources to do that. >> right, not everybody can do it. and i thought it was such an important point you touched upon. if everyone has ever thought about the timing of the benefits, because anyone who has ever lived ton food stamps, you are obsessed with the end of the month, because you have to make things -- the resources stretch until that time. an...

Opposition. do it spread to red districts? it really depends on which ones were talking about. >> you know whats so interesting, ginger, congress is in disarray and you look at the way laws are being passed. city by city, county by county, state by state, thats how things are seeming to get done. is this the new norm? >> the federal government is largely deferring to the states. new jersey voted a constitutional amendment to raise their minimum wage earlier this month. california is going to sta...

Always been wrong? wait a minute, these guys were right about social security, helps the poor, working poor, middle class. >> its because these people believe that the role of faith and the role of markets can take the place of the role of government. they do. and i agree with you on one level, they dont want to get rid of medicare and social security, but they want to reverse history. they view this as a long-running program to reverse history. if they can stop obama care or dismantle obama car...