Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131206:18:50:00
>> well, there are 2 million workers who work for federal contractors. the progressive caucus is asking the president to examine issuing an executive contractors to pay a liveable wage. if you go to the smithsonian, union station, important iconic federal buildings, the people who will be cleaning up there, securing you, guarding you, cooking are all making a wage that forces them to have to rely on food stamps and medicaid, housing subsidy, things like that. they ought to be getting paid a whole lot better. i think the federal government should be leading by example and not leading the race t...