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Push for income inequality. he's called it a defining issue. he also used a shopping trip to the gap yesterday, where they are boosting worker's pay to $9 an hour this year to highlight the importance of minimum wage. >> not only am i continuing to push congress to pass a federal increase in the minimum wage, but what i also said was that businesses could take, and they should as well as states and local governments, to make sure if folks are working full time, they are not living in poverty. >> democrats hope the minimum wage issue will be a big boost heading into the midterm elections, and s...

numbers that we were hoping to see and hopefully will continue. so new jobless claims plunged to 352,000 last week. that's a huge drop. down by 50,000. this demonstrates there are fewer layoffs. however, jobless claims can be a little volatile. for example, we saw claims jump a few weeks ago because of the temporary holiday workers that were laid off. and also the prior week was revised a little bit higher, not much. just by about 3,000. it did go above 400,000. we need to stay below that in order to associate that with actual job creation. today's report is good news. we need to see...

These candidates could beat mitt romney. it would be great to see a series of polls in the southern states. who are you for santorum or romney? it's possible he could survive that and thrive there. the problem for all of them is if gingrich and paul and rick and both ricks stay in, romney never has to have that one-on-one challenge. >> let's get to where we're going next. and that is new hampshire with only four days to go until the voting in new hampshire, the republican presidential field is gearing up for two debates this weekend. the focus is likely to be on mitt romney as the latest suffo...

Romney. it would be great to see a series of polls in the southern states. who are you for santorum or romney? it's possible he could survive that and thrive there. the problem for all of them is if gingrich and paul and rick and both ricks stay in, romney never has to have that one-on-one challenge. >> let's get to where we're going next. and that is new hampshire with only four days to go until the voting in new hampshire, the republican presidential field is gearing up for two debates this weekend. the focus is likely to be on mitt romney as the latest suffolk university poll shows the form...

Plus steven colbert gives rick santorum a second look after his big showing in iowa, yes, it involves a drinking game. that clip later in the show. first the news live at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. with only four days to go until the voting in new hampshire, the republican presidential field is gearing up for two debates this weekend. the focus likely to be on mitt romney. it's the latest suffolk poll that shows the former massachusetts governor carrying 41% support in the state. ron paul has 18%. coming off a strong finish in iowa, rick santorum is up two points, still with just 8...