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Living wage quote arbitrary. >> the district of columbia offers a larger more concentration consumer base with disposable income. that is the reason why other retailers are knocking on our doors and want to come in. we cannot have them pay poverty wages and have the taxpayers pick up social costs. >> councilman orange says he wants wal-mart to pay $12.50. the minimum wage in washington, d.c. hovers around $8.25. the bill is on the mayor's desk. pope francis on his way to brazil for the first international trip of his papacy. he will be visiting the latin american country with theest catholic...

>> and you want wal-mart to pay its employees $12.50 per hour. >> the law says $12.50 per hour less benefits. we want to make sure that our residents in the district of columbia have a living wage which is about $26,000 per year. two people with a living wage can purchase a home. at $8.25 that's only $17,000 on an annual basis. two people living together making the minimum wage cannot purchase a home in the district of columbia. our policy is a living wage, affordable housing, access to health care and a good education which would allow our residents to prosper. we are living in the good times...

Veto an attempt by the city council to force big retailers, specifically walmart, to pay employees more than the minimum wage. walmart is pushing back threatening to cancel projects for up to six stores in the area. the living wage measure would require walmart to pay at least $12.50 an hour compared to the minimum of $8.25. the mayor lobbied hard to bring walmart to the city and is stuck between supporters of the measure who say walmart can easily afford it and opponents who fear the move will drive off much-needed jobs. joe, you agree or disagree with the concept? >> i disagree with the conc...

City council's argument. so what walmart has said, well, we're going to go with three of the stores with, we're not going to go ahead with three others. there was an interesting article in the "new york times" this morning where they actually interviewed people in d.c. people in d.c. were saying, look, i'd actually like this job, i would be happy to work there and i don't think people in the wilson building downtown really understand what i'm going through. so i think there is a disconnect here between what maybe some of the d.c. politicians are hearing from the union people who are backing th...

We're going to require you to pay a $12.50 an hour minimum wage. now walmart is threatening to pull back and not open up those stores. >> what the opposition to these stores? >>have always hated wal-mart because it's non-unionized. what is unfair about the law it would not apply to unionized stores, only big box stores that don't have unions. >> paul: so each store is to bring estimated about 300 jobs and million dollars in tax revenue for d.c.uh& sound like a win-win? >> as the win-win. this is a classic example of democrats putting a special interests, in this case, labor unions ahead thiac ...