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So economic stimulus, number one, is when people have enough money to provide for the bare necessary toifs lifities the of the philosophy behind the minimum wage. we have a situation here where 30 million workers are making less today than workers made in 1968 adjusted for inflation. even though economists say worker productivity has doubled since the '60s. this is ridiculous. if we had an adequate minimum wage, we'd have tens of billions of dollars in economic stimulus creating consumer demand which economists think will get us out of the recession. more than that, we've got the lowest minimu...

It. and so i wrote richard trump, the afl-cio, like my fourth letter and said come on, take a real lead here, for heaven's sake. these workers are potential union members in the future. so we got a kick-start the sluggish democratic establishment in washington. and, you know, they're so stupid electorally. they could win the house back on this issue, preserve the senate. there are 30 million workers looking for a little help to feed their families for heaven's sake. we have the lowest minimum wage in the western world and ontario, where walmart makes good money, they have to pay $10.25 an hour...

President brought it up in his state of the union address. and two people tell "hardball" there 's no action in the senat or the house because of gop disinterest. the public overwhelmingly supports the increase in the minimum wage. the average response that it should be raised is up to about $10 an hour which is actually higher than what the president wants. he wants 10.$10.10. the public wants $10.25. 21 times of the minimum wage raising came during a republican congress. so let me go to senator brown. is that's what's going to have

Who are without health care, really the system needs to work. >> and i want to ask you about another poll that's just out. 76% of americans support raising the federal minimum wage. that's 5 points higher than it was in march. can supporters in congress use those numbers to make a realistic push to pass legislation, do you think? >> well, i hope so because i've joined with my colleague, george miller from california, in introducing an increase in the minimum wage to $10.25 an hour. i think that it's really important to do. i mean wages have to keep pace with inflation and they haven't done tha...

Compromise, but when you're talking about the minimum wage, let's put it into some context. if you look at it in terms of the 1960s wages, this is a minimum wage as it is right now that's about 25%, 28% less than it should be at a minimum. just if kept up to what they were paying in the 1960s. $10.25 roughly $20,000 a year, these are not folks who are going out buying ferraris, these are folks who are trying to make basic ends meet and support themselves. so you would think that there would be some rational support amongst republicans, but i think what you're going to find is in the house for ...