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Have noted. you look at september when the pandemic benefits start to run out. there's incentives to return to work. there are wrinkles in the data of late. some individuals made far too little money working in a restaurant business. they make $2.13 in salary and tips pushed them to $7.25. the current federal minimum wage and some people reluctant to go back because of the virus and others benefit from slightly larger checks to stay home for the time being. i think september is the real month and maybe october when we see the economy start to rip. we are growing very fast. labor market has som...

My boyfriend is working at chipolte. it's not -- no, they don't give enough at all. >> right, right. >> and we have been basically scraping by the best way we can, you know. sometimes the lights would go off or sometimes the cell phone bills won't be paid. i mean, going without eating. >> if we had a society that took care of people on the bottom throughout this country, then the pandemic wouldn't have hit us hard. in the so-called greatest country in the world. >> yep. >> in 2019, 53 million americans were working a low-wage job with immediate hourly wage of $10.22. while that's above the fed...

Chipotle was a dollar on his paycheck. he got paid $11 an hour instead of 10, just for being downtown during the pandemic and the whole protest. no, they don't give enough at all. we've been basically scraping by the best way we can. you know, sometimes the lights would go off or sometimes the cell phone bills won't be paid, going without eating. >> if we had a society that took care of people on the bottom throughout this country, then the pandemic wouldn't have hit us hard. you know what i'm saying? in the so-called greatest country in the world. >> yep. >> in 2019, 53 million americans were...

Doubly from california at this ridiculous hour. but this is a very, very important topic. we have poverty in this country and always shocking to good minded americans to understand how many people are food insecure and living in a situation that sounds and feels like poverty. >> well, good morning. i'm happy to be with you. i want to thank you for focusing on this issue of poverty because the covid pandemic shown a light on and exacerbated the issue of poverty, poor people, low wealth people, people barely surviving with $7.25 minimum wage. and so what we have seen in this covid pandemic, it i...

Poor people's low wage workers assembly march on washington to push this agenda, this narrative. five interlocking injustices. 140 million people, 43% of the nation in poverty. 52% of our children. 62 million who make less than $17 an hour. people are making $7.25 an hour and waitresses are making $2.13. we are far behind. we have people that make $97,000 an hour and 32 million people don't make $15. this is right now. we pushed for the infrastructure. that's one of the things that has to happen. it must be infrastructure that hits from the bottom up. we have 8 million more people fall into po...