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Imagine you're a guy you have to pay a dollar and if you're a girl you have to pay $0.77. is this the way to solve the problem? i'm not sure. >> wonder if the white house they have different prices as well. because women earn i think $0.75 on the dollar to the men at the white house. do they do it at the white house? >> the principal supported their efforts from the young democrats club. >> meanwhile, not a day goes by we're not talking about marijuana pot legalization. maybe this is the first time we're talking about pets and marijuana. a state senator wants to see if he can get medical marij...

Median household income continues to drop adjusted for inflation. add them together and the middle class is under huge stress. >> and stephanie, obviously income inequality continues to explode. average wages have been going down i think every year in real terms since 1973. >> yeah. one of my favorite statistics is that the minimum wage in 1968 was $1.60 which translated to $10.75 in 2013 terms. so, you know, we were doing better in 1968 than we are now and the minimum wage is $9 and change. so it's really putting pressure on working class families. a greater percentage of overall wealth is co...

Family. but we need to be in front of the senators' offices. we need to be in front of where they are. we need to be able to tell the truth about the domestic direction that this country is going in. we can't have an economy where the people at the top get all of the benefits and the rest of us get the crumbs that are left behind and have the economic stability we expect in this country. >> i'd like you to take a minute to define income inequality. that question is popping up. those who are paying attention say what do you mean? what do you mean by income inequality? what is it? >> let's start...

Walmart because they won't pay these workers a decent wage. look, that's why the minimum wage needs to go up, karen. if the minimum wage had kept place with inflation, it would be $10.75. if it had kept pace with the productivity increases, it would be $18.75. if these workers got the same increases as the top 1% in the country, they would be earning $28 an hour right now. it's outrageous. this company uses a model of low wage, no benefit employees to make billions of dollars and lets the rest of us subsidize them for doing it. >> i think we all have our marching orders. the minimum thing we n...

The program expected to launch in 2015. >> smokers beware. chicago mayor rahm emanuel now planning to hike the cigarette tax in the windy city. the proposed $0.75 increase would bring a pack of cigarettes up $0.75. they hope it will offset the $330 million budget deficit. we are just hours away from it apple's big launch event. the tech giant expected to may go make a big announcement about the ipad and the ipad mini. >> self declared tech nerd clayton is here. >> i added the self proclaimed. we are not calling you a nerd. >> i am proud. proud and self proclaimed. will absolutely.