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The national minimum wage a $7. is there hope for an increase in the federal minimum wage? >> that would be the hope. the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. fortuna fortunately, lemg legislators have wised up to the fact that workers are happy to be employed where they need a living wage. states and municipalities taking the charge forward and helping workers as we move on to 2020 have higher wages. so what we are seeing is minimum wages are highest at the municipal levels. places like seattle, $16 an hour, for larger employers. 15 bucks an hour for smaller. new york city, 15 bucks an hour...

So that's entirely consistent with low employment, with high stock prices, and with strong corporate profits. >> what's the answer? because all of the top line numbers look good, right? 20 years ago if we said we would have an employment rate below 5%, we would have been pleased with that. to be 3.5%, you would think everybody could go up to their boss, say i am walking out if you don't increase my salary in a meaningful way. we still have minimum wage of $7.25 in some parts of the country, the federal minimum wage. at $15 an hour, you earn $30,000 a year. we've got the situation where there a...

Between skilled and unskilled jobs. people who have skills, particularly for a technology economy, will do remarkably well. but a variety of people who do unskilled jobs that will still need to exist even after automation basically can't get by. we've now been over ten years since the federal minimum wage has been raised, it's still $7.25 an hour. fortunately states and cities are increasing it and many others will do that on january 1. the other dichotomy we have in this country is between urban and rural, where all of those economic gains are largely being concentrated in a small number of m...

>> you tweeted. you and i talked about this in the past, my criminal justice plan calls for closing private prisons and paying fair wages to incarcerated, a concern for people not profit should govern our criminal policy. it's a whole separate issue we can get into. let's just talk about this. the bloomberg campaign was apparently paying a wage, or paying a fee no a new jersey-based vendor who was then paying the oklahoma department of corrections $7.25, which is the oklahoma minimum wage. we have no transparency as to what the prisoners were making those phone calls were getting paid. we tons...

Prosperity. is this about education, training? >> i think a lot of it comes down to the costs of relocating. you are right. we haven't seen big laws passed that would lead to this but we have seen the erosion of little ones. for example, minimum wage rules are much higher in parts of the country interestingly where the economy's doing quite a bit better so if you look at a lot of the counties that had this poverty result you will see that they're stuck at the federal minimum wage. $7.25 an hour. there is no county in america where a family can do okay or even cross the poverty line with that k...