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We're back is our panel. what is the one big thing to watch for the week ahead? marshall? >> east ukraine. we have to see if there's more trouble, if anything else develops. >> terms of russia and ukraine, what happens next. >> yes. >> john? >> labor force of working age americans. if it's risine ingrising, that' indication. >> the working age. >> i just came back from a conference. it is critical that we have the re-authorization which is coming up at the end of september. exports are key to jobs and employment and growth. we need to make sure we're doing everything we can.

Raise in 20 years. how can you believe that you're going to support the american dreams when families are getting stifled that way? >> i've been an employee, i've been an employer. you want to bid for the best employees you can get and you want to sustain them for a long period of time because you're invested in their skill levels. if you don't have that incentive for people to move up, they look out and think, i need to make more money. i'm going to have to either market those skills to some other employer or go back and get an education. this congress can decide what that number should be, t...

>> that's not the right way to get things done, to get higher wages. you want higher wages because businesses are growing and they want to hire people and have to pay them more to get good people on board. the story we just heard, the problem i see is not that she doesn't get paid more at a fast food place, it is that she lost a job to begin with and had to retreat to a fast food job. and to the point about work ethic, et cetera, and fast food. right now we're at an all time low with teenagers. about 25% of teenagers have work now, that's an all time low, and that's typically been where fast f...

Is there a market solution, or do we have to wait for the government to come in and order people to treat their employees right? >> that's not the right way to get things done, to get higher wages. you want higher wages because businesses are growing and they want to hire people and have to pay them more to get good people on board. the story we just heard, the problem i see is not that she doesn't get paid more at a fast food place, it is that she lost a job to begin with and had to retreat to a fast food job. and to the point about work ethic, et cetera, and fast food. right now we're at an ...

The government to come in and order people to treat their employees right? >> well, not the right way to get things done to get higher wages. you want higher wages because businesses are growing and they want to hire people and they have to pay them more to get good people on, on board. the story that we just heard, the problem i see is not that she doesn't get paid more, at a fast food place is that she lost a job to begin with and had to retreat to a fast food job. to the point about work ethic and et cetera, and fast food, right now, we are at an all-time low with teenagers, about 25% of te...