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Before. let's start with brazil, example of the toll the world cup and take on a country, violent protests, worker strikes on the streets. a story line as you know leading up to the games. where are we now with that? >> i would say that, while the brazilian people are by no means happy about this tournament being hosted in their home country, the fears about protests and strikes have sort of fizzled out since the cup has started. and i say that, that doesn't indicate that the people are happy about the tournament because we have pew polling right before the tournament started that said 60% 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...

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...

Been there for some amount of years, you realize, okay, i'm being used. i'm being used. >> so dorian, ka seen's story is a story we're seeing all over the place. when we talk about strikes, the first thing i hear, not the big mcdonald's chairman, the local franchise owner say if i pay $15 i'm going out of business and then he has no job at all. >> that's a fair point. twoef look at the bigger picture. mcdonald's as a corporation made $5.5 billion in profits last year. >> billions of millions. >> they can afford to pay their franchise ees more money to pass on to workers. so it should not be an...