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House republicans are going to go nuts on this. >> some of them don't think their ought to be a minimum wage. you have to take it to its simplest point. if you believe that raising the minimum wage would lose jobs, it never should have been raised from the time it was a buck in the 50s and the 60s. we have created about 80 million jobs since then. no, i don't see it this way. i think there's strong support. i think we see the states moving forward. everybody knows that you can't work full-time and be in poverty. it makes no sense. they'll make a fuss over it, but when you look through it, at t...

And they were talking about how, i don't want to be on food stamps any more, i want to be self-sustaining, they talk about the dignity of work, they talk about the choices they have to make between medicine and food. that's not america. we can do better than that. americans deserve a raise. tip workers deserve a raise. everyone deserves a raise here above -- so that we have the basic dignity of work in which we reward work, and we don't subsidize business models that force people into food stamps, into other public benefits. that's not who we are. >> secretary of labor always a pleasure, thank...

Floor. >> what about, for example, for servers? servers make, you know, $3.25 an hour compared to a hostess that makes $7.25. we differentiate based on the type of labor. >> there is a movement in massachusetts, where workers who work for tips to bring them up to the same -- >> it's actually not 3.25. i believe it's $2.13 an hour for the federal minimum wage staff. >> there is a movement. >> a lot of states are, whoing to move it. massachusetts has a ballot issue that will raise it to $60% of the minimum wage, which will be over $6 bucks an hour the west coast states, california, states like m...

Earning the minimum wage or lower. you know, in this-- >> and how many are earning less than minimum wage. >> can i finish. >> megyn: let her finish, let her finish. >> the tip minimum wage for tip workers is 2.13 an hour and has been since 1991. ben, the reality in this quote, in this recovery we have been losing middle class jobs and increasing low wage jobs while profits at the top have gone up and businesses are sitting on 2 trillion dollars in-- they're not using to create wages. now, i don't understand why conservatives want to defend the ability of the top to do well and don't want dece...