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Helps or hurts all that much. the bottom line here is we have worked very hard with amazon workers to raise the minimum wage there to $15 an hour. with disney workers to raise their minimum wage to $15 an hour. and in the case of walmart, you have a company owned by the wealthiest family in this country, the walton family, worth $175 billion. their ceo got $24 million in compensation last year. yes, they can afford to pay their workers $15 an hour. and that is what we need to do nationally. the bottom line here is that the great economic crisis in this country, to my view right now, is that yo...

Applebee's new loaded fajitas. now that's eatin' good in the neighborhood. >> shannon: senator bernie sanders taking his socialism to the home of one of america's >> bernie sanders taking his socialism to the home of one of america's great capitalist success stories facing off against the walmart ceo the 2020 candidate talking about minimum wage increases. >> one might think that a family worth $175 billion would be able to pay its employees a living wage. you can't pay rent, you can't get healthcare, you can't feed your kids. or put gas in the car, on $11 an hour. >> we moved our starting wag...

Otezla. show more of you. >> shannon: senator bernie sanders taking his socialism to the home of one of america's great capitalists success stories. facing off against the wal-mart ceo. investigate him to stump for minimum wage increases. >> one might think that a family worth 175-billion dollars would be able to pay its employees a living wage. you can't way rent. you can't get healthcare. you can't feed your kids or put gas in the car on $11 an hour. >> we moved up our starting wages in the united states by 50% in the last 4 years. we continue to adjust up on a market by market basis to recr...

Was there to support a shareholder proposal that would have asked the board to consider walmart associates, the hourly employees, for a seat on the board. i just received the results of the vote. it got less than .01% of the vote. hopefully i'm sure senator sanders hopes he does better than when he runs for president than .01% of the vote. he made a fairly articulate kate to the meeting and to his supporters outside the meeting. take a listen. >> one might think that a family worth $175 billion would be able to pay its employees a living wage. you can't pay rent. you can't get healthcare. you ...

Good evening, jeff. >> starting pay at walmart, $11 an hour. bernie sanders says that's not fair. so he came here to the shareholders meeting in rogers, arkansas to argue for a shareholder proposal that would urge the company to put associates, hourly workers on the walmart board and to raise their wages to $15 an hour. >> one might think that a family worth $175 billion would be able to pay its employees a living wage. you can't pay represent. you can't get healthcare. you can't feed your kids. put gas in the car on $11 an hour. >> sanders was cordial at the meeting speaking within his allott...