Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20190516:01:26:00
$5.15. that meant if you were working nine to five, five days a week, monday to friday, you never took a day off, you never took a sick day, a vacation, you worked five days a week for 52 straight weeks every single week of the year, cumulatively you would make for the year $10,712 as your annual salary, before taxes. in that state that year, 2006, they decided they would put a measure on the ballot to raise that state's minimum wage, raise it from $5.15 an hour to $6.15 an hour, and then importantly, they would tie the minimum wage to prices so when prices went up the minimum wage would autom...