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Obamacare. the measure meant to help workers. the owner of just cupcakes joins us. nice to see you, carla. >> thank you so much. >> greta: tell me the impact. i mean, i know a little of the story is that you have a number of employees and what, about ten employees? >> well, we have an about 25 employees overall, yes, ten minimum wage. >> greta: and the ten that are minimum wage, what's the expectation? what are you going to do about them? >> you know, they're great workers and we love having them, but certainly if the minimum wage goes up, we'll have to make some drastic changes. >> greta: wha...

Screenings, things like that. these are the programs that don't fall under the sacred cows that generally can't be touched when there are massive budget cuts. these are the programs people tend to brush off to the side. they're smaller, not biggies. they're not as sexy as some of the others. they tend to fall by the way side and hurt women. >> you know what, as you're talking about that, what is so sad is they will be disproportionately affecting lower income women. when you talk about some 70,000 kids might not be able to go to head start. what if their moms don't have child care? they might ...

Here where this could play out over months where if republicans -- democrats are already starting to frame this in terms of 2014. if republicans can get put in a similar position, you might have enough joxzs from republicans and potentially vulnerable house districts that say, hey, put this on the floor. we want to vote. that might be the end game. six months from now or something. >> the minimum wage question is -- it's something that everybody understands, right? i mean, most people at one point had a job where they got paid the minimum wage. they remember what that was like. in that way it ...

And that is to eventually pass it on to the consumer. now, the median income in the last four years, as you know, being the braveheart of business that you are has gone from $54,000 to $50,000. people already have less money, so now you're going to ask them to pay more for what they pay at restaurants, even fast food and quick service restaurants? it doesn't work that way. the second thing that they're not taking into account is that most of the companies that hire a lot of minimum wage workers, they hire those minimum wage workers because they have very small profit margins. they don't have a...

Reflected just that. and of course it is the identified problem of the republican party, no doubt about it. i'm joined tonight by terry o'neill, president of the national organization for women, and also with us this evening clarissa martinez, director of civic engagement and immigration at the national council of la raza. great to have both of you with us. >> thank you. >> based, terry, on what you saw today, what are your hopes for a second term? >> i am very hopeful, actually. we need to pass equal pay for work of equal value for women. we will not close the wage gap unless we get there. yo...