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Here and help us understand how this is going to work. have essential workers received the pay yet or will it come this summer? >> yes. so the money is going to come this summer. it will be distributed by the city of oxnard. this will make a massive impact. they have suffered through some of the heaviest impacts of covid-19. they had hazard pay and it was pulled away about six weeks later and throughout the year we've seen high infection rates and a lot of grocery and drug retail workers are the sole wage earners for their family. they when many of us got to work from home and struggled to sta...

—— bodycams for all of our wallets on the floor and that does a lot in deescalating, but it is not enough. we need a really good legal framework that will allow our colleagues to know where they stand. i think it is a joint effort between us, between the police, between our legislators. we all have our part to play. its. legislators. we all have our part to -la . �* legislators. we all have our part to .la , ~ . ., legislators. we all have our part to play. a new criminal offence to rotect play. a new criminal offence to protect retail— play. a new criminal offence to protect retail wo...

Designed for young people. >> and let's talk about the wages again, because the president said today, instead of the workers competing for the jobs that are scarce, employers are competing with each other for workers. i drove by a taco bell where the starting hourly wage is $15 which is great for retail workers, but how long is that is going to last do you think? >> well, it depends. we have needed the wages to increase for some time now, but the way that the capitalism is working for year, it is for executives or shareholders and the labor force didn't have the power. the way that you get the...

Starts to restore trust. there are heavy headwinds he's facing against that given the republican party's decided to double down on the big lie and make it official policy. but trust did not erode overnight. it's not going to be rebuilt overnight. but in some ways, that's the highest responsibility of his presidency is to try to restore some trust between fellow citizens and fellow citizens and their government again. >> kirsten, worker shortages are becoming a major problem, especially for people in low-paying jobs. in fact, 649,000 retail workers quit just in april. president biden brought up...

And make it official policy. trust did not erode overnight. it's not going to be rebuilt overnight. but in some ways that's the highest responsibility of his presidency, is to try to restore some trust between fellow citizens and our government again. >> kirstin, worker shortages are becoming a major problem especially for people in low-paying jobs. 600,000 low-paid retail workers quit. a $15 minimum wage was brought up again today by the white house. do you think that's the answer? >> i don't know, because the reasons people are doing this are complicated. some people are getting better jobs....