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In history and that didnt work either, mary ann for five years. >> it worked for wall street. >> we have, exactly. obamas stimulus worked for wealthy. thank you for putting it that way. >> it has not worked for the middle class and working poor. that is why it has to change. bill: thanks to both of you. we appreciate it. >> thank you. bill: 18 minutes past. jamie. jamie: so much more ahead. this little girl is fight fighting for her life after catching a rare and deadly disease. it is so-called ...

Minimum wage and the war to increase it. >> i am going to keep making the case that we need to raise the minimum wage because its lower right now than it was when ronald reagan took office. its time for the minimum wage to go up. >> the minimum wage, $7.25 an hour. many of these workers, michael, who were out picketing, theyre not a part of a union. thats a part of their demand right now. they want to form a union without fear of retaliation. the service employees international union provided mo...

So government agencies actually disbursed $136 billion on prepaid cards. card issuers collected $190 million in fees. 6 0% of card holder fees came from the atms. when i found out we were doing it too, i was like what is happening here? >> and we did not fix that in regulatory -- financial regulatory reform. >> yeah. >> i think its outrageous. first of all, what we are doing is institutionalizing another mechanism thats going to continue to create the structural inequality. were creating two soc...

Here saw it. that bargain began to fray. technology made some jobs obsolete. global competition sends a lot of jobs overseas. it became harder for unions to fight for the middle class. washington doled out bigger tax cuts to the very wealthy and smaller minimum wage increases for the working poor. and so what happened was that the link between higher productivity and peoples wages and salaries was broken. used to be that as companies did better, as profits went higher, workers also got a better ...

Anywhere in between, this country offered you a basic bargain. a sense that your hard work would be rewarded with fair wages and decent benefits. the chance to buy a home and save for retirement and most of all a chance to hand out a better life for your kids. overtime that engine began to stall and a lot of folks here saw it. that bargain began to fray. technology made some jobs obsolete. global competition sends a lot of jobs overseas. it became harder for unions to fight for the middle class....

Swept its floors, this country offered you a basic bargain. a sense that your hard work would be rewarded with fair wages and descent benefits, a chance to buy a home and save for retirement and most of all, a chance to hand out a better life for your kids. but over time that engine ban to stall and a lot of folks here saw it. that bargain began to fray. technology made some jobs obsolete. global competition sent a lot of jobs overseas. it became harder for unions to hire the middle class. small...

Threaten them at all. if anything, we need more work visas, the guest worker program created by the senate immigration bill is actually extremely small. one of the reasons rand paul voted against the immigration bill is because it doesnt create a workable market base guest worker program. if american companies cannot find american workers, they should be able to bring in the foreign workers that they need. government should not tell them. >> >> laura: so with 7.6 unemployment today you content t...

Threaten them at all. if anything, we need more work visas, the guest worker program created by the senate immigration bill is actually extremely small. one of the reasons rand paul voted against the immigration bill is because it doesnt create a workable market base guest worker program. if american companies cannot find american workers, they should be able to bring in the foreign workers that they need. government should not tell them. >> >> laura: so with 7.6 unemployment today you content t...

Medicaid program. and those people in louisiana need access to health care. they need it so they can help us have a good and stronger economy, a stronger education system, and they need it just because they are an important part of our society. when we are not expanding these programs, we are saying to them, you dont matter. thats a problem. 83% of the patients who come to our clinics come from a working household. 58% are women. they are making that hard choice between putting food on the table...

The dollar. but on a day to day practical level, what does 77 cents to the dollar mean for the mothers, the women in your district? >> less food on the table, less ability 0 provide for the children as head of household. less money in the economy. we know that parents with young children are some of the largest percentages of consumers because children need, and its a heavy burden, stressful with respect to housing. anytime youre in an urban setting and certainly in a growing community like mine...