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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150415:20:55:00

today in what organizers are calling the biggest ever mobilization of workers in the country, protests are being held in over 230 cities to demand a $15 minimum wage. in new york city the marches include airport workers, home care professionals, adjunct professors as well as fast-food workers. also in the protests this man. seattle-based ceo dan price. on monday afternoon, price announced that everyone in his company would be paid a minimum salary of $70,000 a year. >> gravity payments help small businesses process credit card transactions. >> so we have a really exciting situation here. >> reporter: but no one could begin to process this announcement from their boss dan price. >> we're going to have a minimum $70,000 pay rate for everyone that works here.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150415:20:22:00

that they're going to make a transparency and efficiency almost a priority here going into 2016. i know that hillary clinton is getting hit on not sort of giving the big overarching message about why she's running for president. but even if iowa she's put some specific proposals on the table, or addressed the issues of you know, the minimum wage constitutional amendment to deal with citizens united marriage inequality, paid leave. i mean she is touching on policies in a more specific way than she has been before. how much do you think that that is a sort of reaction to the criticism? >> i don't think it is because i think she does have to make an argument to the american people about why she is a good candidate. i don't think the american people are just going to accept it on its face. they want to see her make that argument. in terms of the e-mails and the distraction, i just don't think it's going away. i don't think it's going to be a day in day out story. but every few weeks or so there's going to be something else. the next thing to happen will be

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20150415:20:59:00

wage, self-imposed, that will be there for the rest of the company. >> do you feel like other ceos that you talk to feel guilty about the discrepancy between workers and the people at the top? >> i think ceos, when they get to a certain level they start to think about what do i want my legacy to be what's the purpose of this? because it has to go beyond money. if you get to a place and it's just about greed and making more money, it just doesn't motivate you. so people start thinking about lifestyle and they get bored. for me, it's always been about let's figure out how to make a mark. so i know we have forever made a mark on how easy and cheap it is to accept credit cards. that's our last 12 years. i'd like to think that a year or two, or ten years from now, we'll have made a mark on wage equality. >> i think you already have made your mark. it is really awesome. thank you for sharing your story. thank you for doing the things that you're doing. thanks for your time. dan price, ceo. that is all for now. "the ed show" is coming up next.

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