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Guess who is an msnbc contributor. you have been speaking to latinos to get their reaction to what they heard yesterday from president trump and what you saw. tell us what you're hearing. >> with president trump, we have large numbers of women who are effective. i want to train the spotlight on latinas in particular. economic issues. latinas make $0.55 to the dollar. latinas are the largest number of uninsured. latinas are also the most in danger of the repeal of the executive order for being torn apart from their children. the trump administration affects millions of americans negatively. i t...

And maryland who also raised the minimum wage and hopeful three that can spur some national level. >> will will they be able to look at that and say look what it's doing for the overall economy of these areas. >> historically, they've always led the way on this. so there was a decade-long period in the late '90s where the minimum wage was stuck at $5.15 an hour and dozens took steps on their own to raise the minimum wage and that spurred congress finally to raise the minimum wage and we'll see the same thing happen again. we had examples, and the state of washington had before a few months ago...

Higher than the minimum wage here in new york city. where the big mac is the same price, because you see san francisco has its own minimum wage on top of the federal -- minimum wage, and on top of california's minimum wage, which i said is higher than most states. san francisco's minimum wage is $10.55. and mcdonald's still wants to do business there. and still makes barrels and barrels of money there. >> for businesses across the country it would mean customers with more money in their pockets. and a whole lot of folks out there would probably need less help from government. in fact, working ...

Expensive big macs in the country are here in new york city, right around the corner from this building where they cost $4.69. which is also what a big mac will cost you on fillmore street in san francisco. where, get this, the local minimum wage is a full $3.30 higher than the minimum wage here in new york city. where the big mac is the same price, because you see san francisco has its own minimum wage on top of the federal -- minimum wage, and on top of california's minimum wage, which i said is higher than most states. san francisco's minimum wage is $10.55. and mcdonald's still wants to do...

The economy we're in right now, is fundamentally a low wage economy. there are millions of shanita's around the country. and we know how to raise wages and keep business profit an at the same time. it's not something we haven't figured out. we have the tools to do this, and the social science scholarship for the last 20 years has shown that there are no negligible employment -- >> there's been this revolution that's happened in economics, where the old model just said, yeah, you raise the minimum wage and you're going to put people out of work. that's supply and demand, you put an artificial p...