around for a while, the poor, the minorities the disenfranchised, those with less education, young people who haven't had the job experience, these people aren't worth $15 an hour in most cases. >> he just came out and said it. the poor, the minorities, the disenfranchised, the young, they're not worth it. i'm afraid you're wrong, art. because economies -- this is how it is. labor is scarce. some are having to do just that. some businesses have, quote, found a way around the worker shortage which is raising wages to $15 an hour or more, like the pittsburgh ice cream parlor who did not produce a single application between january and march so he decided to double the starting wage to $15 an hour plus tips to see what would happen. the shop was suddenly flooded with applications. more than a thousand filed in over the course of a week. this is, of course, elemental economics. when something is plentiful, it's going to be cheap.