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Minimum wage increases. but we have really dislocated something from we saw in the past. then you have to pay your managers more. some large employers have cut the pay of somethimanagers or eliminated that pay. so all of a sudden the middle class gets left out again, and finally we're getting wage gains for the low wage workers. >> every time i talk to you about this i get a little smarter, you always bring me something i didn't know and i always appreciate that. diane, chief economist. coming up, live in syria, preparing for the final battle to clear out the last isis stronghold in the countr...

Process and then the roads could be shear ice as the temperature drops. so that's going to be a big concern across the northern plains and the you were midwest where we could see record cold temperatures. so, we will be following all of those stories in the next couple of days. steve: a lot of weather news today. >> yep. steve: thank you. 22 minutes now before the top of the hour. and jillian joins us. jillian: good morning. how does this sound? vacation for all. new york democratic mayor blaze wantdeblasio businesses te new yorkers 10 days vacation. sounds good, right? here is some of the pro...

In part because of the climate change effort and also in part because we have such a success story in my state. we have grown the greatest gdp growth, the best job creation, because we've embraced these progressive policies. the first state to do net neutrality. the best family paid leave. one of the biggest minimum wage increases. gender day equity laws, a big transportation package. when they can't build a birdhouse in washington, d.c. so my potential candidacy is not just around climate change, although this is attracted people's interest in it. people have understood we need someone with e...

As what frederick douglass called the slave master's religion versus the religion of christ. it's always been a part of the american construct that we misinterpret. >> on that note, i want to bring in jason johnson, who is politics editor of theroot.com. at a certain point what i think a lot of people don't understand is how raw self-interest doesn't over come this. these are the same people who are cutting out health care, who are taking away living wages, who are denying minimum wage increases, who are saying we will leave you poorer. we refuse to let you have higher wages. you cannot have h...

Raising the minimum wage? does it help, or does that hurt any kind may? >> it hurts, one minimum wage increases, the cost goes up as well. we are finding that technology is able to replace some basic functions that employees used to be able to provide, for example, going to a restaurant, an atm machine at a banquet, the technology is more reliable, they show up on time, and they don't call in sick. san francisco, san diego, and seattle, where it shows that a reason minimum wage it drastically hurts the businesses that are there. in san diego, the dollar 50 increase resulted in 4,000 jobs lost ...