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Because the president also made the point that most minimum wage workers are not teenagers, like you just said. listen to this. >> they are not teenagers taking on their first job. they are adults. average age is 35 years old. a majority of lower wage jobs are held by women. many of them have children that they are supporting. these are americans who work full time, often to support a family. and if the minimum wage had kept pace with our economic productivity they would already be getting paid well over $10 an hour. >> now, i raise that because everywhere i go -- and i travel a lot -- that is...

Work, you work full time, you shouldn't be living in poverty, not in america. we believe that. >> we do believe that. right now the annual salary for a minimum wage worker is just over $15,000 a year. that's not enough to raise a family. and despite what some republicans say, many minimum wage workers are supporting their families and they are struggling to do it. raising the minimum wage isn't just good policy, it's good politics. >> a majority of americans not just democrats, not just independents but republicans, too, support raising the minimum wage. it's the right thing to do. [ applause ...

Affordable high-quality child care so working moms can feel safe leaving their kids. we don't have republican champions. what they're saying is, women make these choices and it's because of choices that women make that they don't have equal pay. two-thirds of minimum wage workers in this country are women. women do not choose to be corralled off into the lowest paying jobs in the economy and yet that's what's happening to women. it's about younger women and women of color and immigrant women. women in immigrant communities are very subject to exploitation in the workplace. >> is it too early t...

Interests. >> going back to the politics of it, what you raised earlier, when you deal with these issues, take for example the minimum wage, most americans support raising the minimum wage. the pew poll found 73% support it. 66% according to the "washington post." nbc found 63% should be a priority this year. this works in with women's issues since two-thirds of minimum wage workers are women. how can republicans drag their feet on this? >> well, because they believe that this is the way they are catering to their gerrymandered conservative base. if you listen to what rush limbaugh was saying,...

Minimum wage, that money gets turned around, spent right back at costco, right back at walmart, right back on main street. >> are there regional variations in how much people like raising the minimum wage? would it particularly help democrats who support it in any one region more than other parts of the country? >> yes. this is what is so fantastic about this issue is there are not big regional differences. if you want a southern strategy which we're always talking about republicans, we need a southern strategy as democrats, well, the minimum wage is your southern strategy because southern vot...