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Income or earnings coming into a family and upward mobility. >> because of the care and guidance two parents can provide, two incomes help with homework and discipline, often too much for a single parent. >> it's very difficult for that one parent to do all those things and serve all those roles. >> when a kid is born to a single mother, it's going to be harder for that kid, all other things equal, to make it in the world. >> another factor, one that helps even single mothers, is education. >> for black single mothers with a college degree, 100% exceed their parent family income. >> but it's h...

Look, it's an axiom of economics. if you raise the price of everything, you are going to lower demand. there are going to be jobs lost. do i think that raising the minimum wage gradually and indexing is the way to do it. if you index it, it stops being political issue. >> is $9 a starting point? >> i think what we really ought -- what conservatives ought to do. if you can't feed a family on, this and as a result of our lousy recovery. a lot of people are depending on this wage, then i think for people who are the bread winners in a family, it ought to be raised. but i think what you want for e...

I wouldn't know. >> i am an enormous admirer. she is fun to read. the tragedy of her career is she spent it writing about feminism. it is a null philosophy and it is between rachy and astrology despairs -- as far as credibility and there is no point spending a lifetime writing about it. >> i think he nailed it. did she write this to see feminist heads explode? >> she enjoyed doing that, and i think she made a good point. women are winning. they are closing the income gap. they are more represented on the college campuses and they are more bread winners and they are finding that a lot of that i...

American history, people who work with minimum wage jobs were either teenagers or people just entering the work force or in, say, the '60s, married women who were looking for part-time work. over time as the u.s. job market has changed, increasingly you're seeing bread winners both men and women take those jobs. the problem is the minimum wage was never really designed as a bread winning job and never paid enough to allow you to raise a family. and that is really where i think you're seeing a lot of the energy behind the push for higher minimum wage come from. >> it makes common sense but a li...

Other cities that have done this as well. >> i just can't see any tea partier out there in the house who would ever advocate for a vote for raising the minimum wage. we could be in for a long hall of wages being depressed. tom, your thoughts. >> well, you know, there are two gaps the republicans were were road about in the last election. latino gap and gender gap. they should remember that 62% of people making minimum wage are women. this issue affectsome families and particularly so many women who are becoming primary bread winners at the low end of the economic scale. as they appeal it a bro...