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Job soits and recruiting firms say many job seekers won't even consider jobs that pay less than $15 anymore. for years, low paid workers fought to make at least that much. now it has effectively become the new baseline. end quote. joining us now the former chairman of the council on economic advisers for president obama. he is a professor of economics at the university of chicago's booth school of business. william spriggs is an economics professor at howard university and the chief economist for the afl-cio. welcome. william, this is quite a thing. the minimum wage, federal minimum wage $7.25...

Hour. but the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. those numbers just don't add up so we need to look at what's causing the threat of evictios and it's health and wages. >> but do we have to separate the two? because the wage issue is a real one, but it has nothing to do with covid. >> yes, it does! remember, a disproportionate amount of social workers are low pay. so we want people to participate in the economy, but we also need to pay they can so they can actually live. it is essentially, it should be a right for you to work and live in the same area and it's almost impossible to do so. so...

Because not only are they trying to stop voter suppression here in texas, not only are they trying to advance voting rights in the one place where it can be won, the united states senate with the leadership of president biden, but they understand the connections to the fact that texas has a minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. it's the least insured state in the country, which means that folks are dying of diabetes and the flu and curable cancers because they just cannot see a doctor. so if we want to fix these things, people have to be able to vote. and texans understand that. that's why all of us ...

>> fidelity variant derail the u.s. economy and president biden 's legislative legislatively inspects ari fleischer joins us to talk abou that in a moment, but first, at $15 starting wage could become the norm for low skilled worker as employees struggled to fill jobs. of $15 wage more than doubles the official federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. the congressional budget office saying the higher wage could mean one point for nguyen fewer jobs by 2025, but also a pay raise for 27 million people. plus walmart says it will cover 100 percent of college tuition at ten schools for its u.s. worker...

Employee's bargaining chip right now. neil: i never thought we would get to this second clip, but it's the administration to pay people more. when people whisper you do pay more attention, do the whole show that way, can't hurt. joining us now, a chief barbecue officer. >> good morning, neil. neil: you would not have these problems if, [whispering] you paid people more. >> good morning, neil, i feel like a simplistic and short-sighted look at the problem that we're facing right now, and i'm sitting in my restaurant in wisconsin the minimum wage is 7.25. right now, our starting page here is dou...