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♪ if i gave one to you? ♪ the senate judiciary committee is holding a hearing right now to continue the markup on the gang of eight's immigration bill. today they're focusing on the new guest worker program designed to attract high-tech labor and low skilled workers. republicans are looking to make the legislation friendlier to businesses while democrats are pushing for prolabor amendments to the bill. states are also look agent the rights of low skill workers. new york's assembly just pass add farm workers bill giving workers an eight hour day along with disability and unemployment bene...

Stamps, because in fact a majority of snap households do in fact have people working, often, woing full time, often working for walmart, but in fact the other low-wage jobs, but working full time is not enough to feed their family. >> yes, they are on foot insecurity. they feel insecurity about food, because they're every secure about their employment and we are doing everything we can to discourages or z everyone. we have $2,000 that they have to pay if they don't have the right kind of health insurance. we have higher minimum wages, which discourages employers from hiring low-skilled workers...

Immigration reforms, visaings for low skilled workers and restrictions on companies that hire skilled workers. >> we had a break through agreement last week specifically about low skill workers, we're very excited about that about business and labor, support of the bill is critical. this bill is in the interest of every american, whether you're a union member, whether you're a small business owner, whether you work for a big company, we're talking about making our country stronger, we're talking about securing our borders and we're making sure we have a pathway to citizenship with so many woul...

Speaker yon boehner's point, it's not a solution to the problems of our economy, but it is one thing we can do that helps very, very low skill workers, people at the bottom of the income ladder, get a little bit more from what are at this moment very profitable, very profitable period in corporate profits. >> it's not just about a little bit more because that's a good idea. if you look at -- i mean, one in three american families is living near poverty. i mean, the census number -- the number of american families that are basically living on the brink of the powerhouse, as we cut programs to h...

At the number, 71%, what the president got of the latino vote and that has been in many ways spurring this conversation. but do they seem to really want a pathway to citizenship, or is it they want to do something, so in the end they can sort of say well here's what we did. >> it's not totally clear who the audience for these proposals is. the problem for the gop is their base, their core voters, the people who come most reliably for them, are really opposed to anything that seems like amnesty, smells like amnesty, looks like amnesty. so they have to reconcile with these proposals in part to a...