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A fight about dignity. it's a fight about whether everyone in this country is going to be, if they work full time or have a decent job. >> former labor secretary joins demonstrators today at a mcdonald's in oakland calling for a $15 minimum wage. protesters planned for more than 2,000 cities to have a protest. protesting and striking minimum wage workers have really shaped the political conversation around income inequality. a conversation that is now somewhat remarkably happening in the presidential campaign on both the republican and democratic sides, the movement seems to also work its way ...

Making 78 cents on the dollar or much less if you're a woman of color, and you end up with a level of frustration there is a sense that the system is not being fair to american families. because hen we bring home the bacon, we're filling gas tanks and refrigerators for our men, as well as for our children. >> now, you know another real woman's issue is raising the minimum wage. because 56% of minimum wage workers are women. their average age is 35 years old. and 28% of them have children. what would an increase in the minimum wage mean to women and their families? >> well you know i think an i...

Students. >> this is the most appalling decision i've ever seen. i don't see how you send educators to prison. >> and now they face each decades in prison typically reserved for mobsters and organized crimes charges that they were convicted of. and developing now, accused murderer robert durst is back in court this hour. the latest on his hearings and we'll get an exclusive look at final hours before he was arrested. plus, mcdonald's agrees to give a raise to thousands of minimum wage workers, but why the raise only applies to a fraction of their workforce is a sticking point today. it's o...

This a dramatic escalation in their antiabortion agenda. that little nugget that's in the antihuman trafficking bill is really astonishing. what it does is it says to trafficked victims, survivors of trafficking they can't get access to healthcare if it involves abortion care. rape is epidemic in the trafficked community. it's outrageous. that's a huge escalation. you put that together with the budget that has just been proposed by the republican leadership which slashes programs that women disproportionately live on. why do women rely on these programs? it's because two thirds of minimum wage...

Wages in general have not been rising and so even if the economy has recovered, randi, wages have not been raising. in washington they haven't been able to raise the federal minimum wage so states are doing it instead. >> so you look at the minimum wage going up in states, how does it compare with the rest of the world? >> the federal minimum wage is $7.25. denmark -- much higher taxes -- but in denmark $20 an hour. germany $10, france $11.66. all industrializations with a lot higher minimum wages than the united states. and when you adjust the united states minimum wage in the u.s. for inflat...