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Raise the men minimum wage. >> wind is in the sails of low income minimum wage workers in a way that is perhaps not with other labors across the country and bigger unions, it's a powerful story. these are jobs that a lot of people do not want to have. this is brutally hard work. it is thankless work, behind the scenes, low paid and to be cheating these hard working people out of literally cents every day is despicable, fighting the good fight as usual. >> thank you. in the car washes, some folks were paid $4 an hour. in that case the rwdsu and other unions are organizing them. but in new york ...

Going to come back and say this would be a job killer. >> well, the cbo report, if you read it closely, says that anywhere from a zero jobs will be lost to a million jobs will be lost. so that's quite the range. and i think it's really hard to tell, because one of the things that doesn't often get factored in is that we are lifting the demand up. take gap, for example. now, how many minimum wage workers under the current standard could go and shop at gap? maybe some, maybe at the outlet store. who knows? but if you raise their rates to $10.10 an hour over the course a-3% raise and hundreds if ...

So at the top of the show, we talked about the possible effects of the minimum wage hike. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends. as of 2012, idaho has the highest percentage of minimum wage workers in the u.s. at 7.7%. alaska has the lowest at 1%. let's head to the cooler. we welcome louis back from a trip down south. let's go to jimmy fallon where he welcomed his first comedian. it may be someone you heard of, the one, the only jerry seinfeld. fallon does a pretty spot imitation of the sitcom star. >> when i got late night, you gave me some great advice. you said this job is...

The economy going forward, which i think we all can say can't take any huge blows. and the first is on the subject of raising the minimum wage. when the president signed his executive order raising minimum wage for federal contract workers, here's something he said. >> owners of small and large businesses are recognizing that fair wages and higher profits go hand in hand. it's good for the bottom line. >> increasing the minimum wage, good for the bottom lines, steve? >> well, janet yellen let the cat out of the bag on that one when she was asked in recent testimony about raising the minimum wa...

The economy going forward which i think we all can say can't take any huge blows. and the first is on the subject of raising the minimum wage. when the president signed his executive order raising minimum wage for federal contract workers, here's something he said. >> owners of small and large businesses are recognizing that fair wages and higher profits go hand in hand. it's good for the bottom line. >> increasing the minimum wage, good for the bottom lines, steve? >> well, janet yellen let the cat out of the bag on that one when she was asked in recent testimony about raising the minimum wag...