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>> know yourself. >> is this your best price? >> that's my best price for the best quality. i have less quality for cheaper. >> i'm not interested in less quality. >> know how high or low you can go. >> one box for my best box of fish is $4.50 is the best i can do. >> it's my first time here. i'm going to be coming back here a lot so let's just make a deal. first time, beginning of doing business, not the end. >> in good faith i'll charge you $4.40 and hopefully i'll trust you to come back. >> i'm actually looking for more like $4. >> $4, i can't do it. cannot do it. >> what if we split the di...

The minimum wage. they pay only $4.40 by hour. i used to work 66 hours a week. they paid me between 40 and 45 hours a week. so they forced me to -- besides this, i work no matter what the weather conditions or we clean the restaurant, we're cutting pizza, we move the merchandise from the corporation. we're very glad to got this victory by organizing. when my coworkers from different backgrounds and pastors and students, residents -- that's why we got this victory. >> the numbers here are staggering.

We have 12 million americans unemployed and millions more that are underemployed. when you break down the numbers, it comes to 4.40 a day. that is less than a value of a mcdonald's meal. >> i know we have evidence, but there is evidence to back up the fact that a lot of people who get it don't deserve it. people were buying snacks and potato chips and chewing gum with the card. >> it underscores when we get reform, you have to have a better economy like we had in the mid1990s. this kind of thing should be closed and folded and other welfare programs like for the seniors and supplement income p...

>> yeah. that's pretty low. it sounds pretty remarkable that so many people make so little money. so, here is part of senator warren's exchange with the restauranteur who refused to accept raising the wage would raise his meal prices by a dime. >> maybe it's only four -- but if your entrees are $14.40, see how fast i can do the math, are you telling me you can't raise your prices by eight cents? >> you know, typically, when costs rise, we don't actually raise it just four cents. we might go a little higher. that has an inflationary effect on the economy. so you may be talking away the money yo...

That's pretty low. it sounds pretty remarkable that so many people make so little money. so, here is part of senator warren's exchange with the restauranteur who refused to accept raising the wage would raise his meal prices by a dime. >> maybe it's only four -- but if your entrees are $14.40, see how fast i can do the math, are you telling me you can't raise your prices by eight cents? >> you know, typically, when costs rise, we don't actually raise it just four cents. we might go a little higher. that has an inflationary effect on the economy. so you may be talking away the money you just ga...