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That same night took a u.s. senate seat away from an incumbent republican senator that year in montana, that surprise victory that night was credited in part to the huge support for that sorely needed minimum wage increase that was on the same ballot. and the big turnout boost that came from people who wanted to go to the polls to vote for it who may also have decided to vote for jon tester while they were there. well, this was the voter information pamphlet in montana that year showing the argument for that minimum wage hike. $5.15 now. let's boost it to $6.15 and tie to it price hikes. and y...

$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...

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 and then, importantly, they would tie the minimum wage to prices. so when prices went up, the minimum wage would automatically keep pace. it would tick up every year. $6.15 an hour still sucks, but that ballot measure that year would mean a dollar an hour raise right away for the lowest paid people in that state, and it would mean the minimum wage would never fall that far again behind the cost of living. so it was 2006 that measure was on ...

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Market watch on the "wall street journal." we'll put it up on the screen. for investors, the biggest risk right now is that the federal reserve will lose its nerve and raise interest rates too soon. a premature tightening of the policy could undermine the still fragile economic growth, crash the market and keep millions of people out of work. crash the market, millions of people out of work. really already got 24 million people who can't find a full-time job or even a part-time job. >> there's two ways to stimulate the economy. fiscal and monetary. the fiscal policies of president obama have n...