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>> this inequality problem bedevils the entire country. and i can tell you from my work, much of the world. but it is not just a moral outrage, it is a horrible constraint on economic growth and on giving people the security we need. we cannot go forward if we don't do it together. >> that focus on creating an economy built for everyone is being felt all over the country. 13 states raised their minimum wage yesterday. that means a pay raise for nearly 2.5 million low-income americans. and now the president and democrats are ramping up pressure on the issue as well. making it a key focus of the...

National urban league and former mayor of my city, new orleans, joel berg, the executive director of the new york city coalition against hunger, and ovit roy, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute. i want to ask amy quickly, if you have a sense of whether or not the issue here is the left and the right disagree that there is a problem or if the left and the right simply disagree about the solution to the problem, because the latter to me feels appropriate in a democracy but first feels like climate change denialism, that there is no inequality problem. >> i don't even think this is a left...

Zero budgetary costs that does what it's supposed to do at a time when we really need what it's supposed to do. which is to boost the earnings of our lowest wage workers and push back on this inequality problem. i think if speaker boehner were being more accurate, he'd say i'm being essentially funded by opposing minimum wage my whole career. that's really the influential point here. and because the people -- and not just democrats. the people are with the minimum wage. >> and there's no doubt about that. but krystal, what i'm talking about is the economic impact. a recent study concluded rais...

Full-time for $8.00 an hour and having to feed their family with food stamps. these aren't people sitting around eating bon bones watching soap oprahs, these are people working 12, 13, 14 hours a day, two jobs, working at night, working all night. can't find child care for their kids. literally the i'm bod nabl cruelty of this, the fact that you would couch it in the bible is so sickening, it's almost impossible to respond to. >> one piece of context on the numbers we saw, important, it's not simply -- when you say income, i think of those numbers as the numbers i've seen before. it's not simp...

Working in an industry where most americans say yeah those are low wage jobs but the fact is those are jobs that's replacing the middle class jobs so those jobs are our future american jobs. if we don't make them better we don't have a middle class. >> two points are critically important. one is kind of where we're head, which is yes when you talk about the economy getting better in a totally agree on the macroeconomics and employment points, you really have to ask for whom is the economy getting better? because it's not getting better for everyone. this inequality problem is back. kind of may...