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Clear enough statement? statewide in nevada won by 38 points. statewide in arizona won by 32 points. statewide in montana won by 46 points. a 46 point margin of victory for raising the minimum wage. state year in ohio, same year, won by 12 points. of course, in new jersey in november it won by 22 points. while they were putting chris christie back in office. whenever you put raising the minimum wage on the ballot, whenever you give people a choice about whether or not they want to raise the minimum wage, the answer is yes, they want to raise the minimum wage. that makes democrats who support r...

With. i've been meeting with business people and meeting with small business owners. people who run park lots. people that run nursing care homes. people that clean up in office people at the low end of the wage scale. and you ought to hear what they are talking about, neil. what they are talking about is the fact that because of obamacare, many of them would go to part time workers. one parking lot entrepreneur told me that 50% of its people are going on part time and he sawed i feel so badly because these people really need their jobs but i can't afford the medical care. i can't do it. i hop...

>> according to the national employment law project, lower wage jobs made up 21% of recession losses, making up almost 60% of recovery growth. think about that for a second. what we've seen now is worker strikes. the walmart workers grow from just a few cities to hundreds across the country, all of this is setting the stage for the minimum wage and the fight to raise wages more broadly at the bottom of the wage scale, to be one of the definitive battles of 2014, joining me now, thomas perez. >> great to be here, chris. >> can you get the minimum wage done, and does it really have an effect whe...

Has been pushing hard for a minimum wage increase. >> it is well past the time to raise the minimum wage that was below where it was when harry truman was in office. >> according to the national employment law project, lower wage jobs made up 21% of recession losses, making up almost 60% of recovery growth. think about that for a second. what we've seen now is worker strikes. the walmart workers grow from just a few cities to hundreds across the country, all of this is setting the stage for the minimum wage and the fight to raise wages more broadly at the bottom of the wage scale, to be one of...

>> according to the national employment law project, lower wage jobs made up 21% of recession losses, making up almost 60% of recovery growth. think about that for a second. what we've seen now is worker strikes. the walmart workers grow from just a few cities to hundreds across the country, all of this is setting the stage for the minimum wage and the fight to raise wages more broadly at the bottom of the wage scale, to be one of the definitive battles of 2014, joining me now, thomas perez. >> great to be here, chris. >> can you get the minimum wage done, and does it really have an effect whe...