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If i were to look back, i would say the bankruptcy taught me how to really watch the business end of the business, because being a creative person, having all these dreams and all these ideas is all well and good, but if you don't have that business acumen, and if you don't know how to balance the creative with the business, you end up with nothing. now, here are three things you need to know this week about small business. a new gallup poll shows small business owners are split over whether the minimum wage should be raised. of those surveyed, 47% said it should be raised from the current $...

Spokesperson for former vermont governor howard dean. good to see both of you. >> good to be here. >> we're going to go over the pros and cons of both sides of this argument. matt, we'll start from the small business perspective. looking at a recent gallup poll of small business owners with 60% of them saying that raising the minimum wage to 9.50 an hour would hurt business. if these guys are forced to pay more, will they hire fewer people? >> i guess all we can too is look at the past and what studies show us is that for every 10% increase in the minimum wage, there is a 5 to 9% decrease in t...

So took me two hours to fill one tub. which it's $9.50. so i made $4.75 an hour for my first two hours. now time to get back to work.

In these fields. >> here's your ladder. >> great. which way should i head? just where everybody else is going? >> yeah. just head straight down. and i'll meet you down there. >> okay. carrying my ladder. got to carry it, i don't know, about a quarter mile, half mile to where i'm picking today. this is my line of trees right here. so i'll work down until i meet whoever that is on the other end somewhere in the middle. it's around $9.50 per tub, so my goal today is to get at least six. if i was going to really make a living wage, i'd need to have that first tub filled in an hour. i'm right here,...

Is that pretty terrible? >> just about. >> all right. see you in a bit, man. >> all right. >> so took me two hours to fill one tub. which it's $9.50. so i made $4.75 an hour for my first two hours. now time to get back to work.