0 obama care and the rollout of the health care website has been a disaster for them. so taking further risks on guns. >> the only thing that will make them do that is pressure from below. that is all this evening, the rachel maddow know starts right now. >> thanks you at home for joining us this hour. $67,000. $67,000 the latest data available from the census bureau that that's the typical net worth for the american household. the median means that there's an equal number of households that are worth more than that and an equal number of house holds that are worth less than that. the medium net worth for an american household, the median net worth for a member of the house, is that number plus $1 getting richer over time, they're now getting richer faster. the median net worth of incoming members of congress, that -- is even richer than congress already was when they got there. they made congress richer by getting there. and you know what? good for them, there's nothing wrong with people having lots of money, right? in terms of us making value judgments about what that says be whether people are good representatives, that's just a fact of congress. it's an underappreciated fact about our democracy, that we essentially choose from among our millionaires who will be our representatives in washington. that's essentially the pool that bechoose from. and for some of the truly ethically rich members of congress, once you know how ethically rich they are, it's hard to think about whether or not that plays into the while the average american is not getting richer, the average member of congress really is getting richer, and that's happening faster and faster all the time right now. and whether or not it is related, right now the average american's view of the average member of congress is the worst it has ever been in the history of asking people that question. the gallup organization for those released with polling data on how congress is doing in terms or handling it's job, the number of americans who say yeah, they like the way congress is doing its job right now is down to 2 -- is that a single -- 9%, the lowest number ever recorded in gallup for decades of asking this question of the american people. they got really, really bad during the government shutdown last month, not of course have they not recovered since then, they in fact have continued to drop, it has never, ever, ever been in bad. at the same time, though, at the same time that gallup released that data, they also just released data that might help our ritchie rich congress out of american people hating them so much. there's one thing that congress could do, that -- it would make democrats happy, turns out it would make independents happy, turns out it would make republicans happy. it's just about the most popular thing that congress could conceivably do and it's totally and statisically within reach kpor them to do it right now. nothing gets support like this. among democrats 91 post-support. among republicans it's 58%, among independents 76%,over all more than three-quarters of americans are in favor of raising the minimum wage, raising the minimum wage is more popular than expertise, among democrats and independents and republicans, when you ask regular americans if they like this idea, it is wildly popular. and actually popularity is going up. when new jersey voters went to the polls last week, they re-elected their governor chris christie by a 22 point margin, but they also overturned the gofz nor's vito of a prize in the state wage. new jersey's going to go from a $7.25 federal minimum wage to a dollar more than that, plus it's going to be scheduled to go up with legislation. no thanks to chris christie, the people of new jersey decided that on their own. so gallup numbers to raise the minimum wage, that raises the minimum wage to $9 an hour, which is what president obama proposeded in the state of the union back in february. they certainly plan a vote on it by the end of the year, they may with, if you look at all of the studies of the impact of raising the minimum wage, this is where they come out. want to know where that spike is, just look that digit right before. zero, this is the pile of studies, this is the overall emta impact of what studies say is the impact of minimum wage. this is the employment prospects when you raise the minimum wage. the university of chicago put out another big -- racing the minute muj wage on balance was a good thing to do for people at the bottom end of the economic spectrum, and economists say yes, this would be a good idea. this would work, this is a good idea. this is nogs like trying to invent a time traveling teleportation to put people on jupiter or something. it's been done incrementally over and over and over again. federally and across the country you have -- way for looking at economic pop limit and issues about class and money, whether or not that is the future of the democratic party's politics. what's your conclusion? >> no question, any way you slice the data, it's very hard to not see this trend toward pop him in the party. you mentioned a gallup survey, they have done a number of surveys tracking this over the years. before the crisis, democrats suspicions of the size and influence of corpses, about half of democrats were kind of suspicious, now it's 80%. if you look at their views on banks and what they think about the banking sectors t number of americans that think very negatively about big banks 80 -- the support for government regulation of business has increased by roughly 17 toinlts, i mean you go down the list and it's clear that the orientation is increasingly popular. >> you look at elizabeth warren as maybe the standard bearer or a symbol of this in democratic politics, obviously she's a brand-new senator and nobody really knows where she's going in the party. it's not like elizabeth warren and bernie sanders are -- it's shar rod brown, it's jeff merkley. it's a lot of snarts and a lot of sort of, i think, i guess it would consider them to be democratic a-listers who line up more on that side than the traditional prowall street track path. who championed the other side of it. did hillary clinton and if so who else? >> it remains to be seen. i mean hillary has obviously has a strong record fighting for kind of, you know, populist economic issues and universal health care in the '92 campaign is a very prosperous position. but there's no question that the clintons have been close to a number of wall street alumni over the years, the sort of intellectual descentants continue to be close to clinton to this day. then you have people you would expect, the people who in their own state, the financial sector is very strong, whether it's delaware and the senator is -- you know, south dakota where a lot of banks are located. you know, so it ends up being sort of the old story, the politics is local. but i think that's where we see it. it's interesting, this piece about elizabeth, when i speak with chris murphy it was also elected in 2012 with elizabeth warren. i said how has this changed the democratic caucus in the last several we'res? he told me he thought in 2008 before the crisis, the caucus was split evenly between wall street skeptics and all street sympathizers, now he thinks it's 2/3, 1/3. >> with support from the white house, pushing on this right now, it's sort of going to be the last thing that they push on between now and thanksgiving, maybe, they're going to do this right away, is this sort of a test for both the democratic side of the aisle, but also to see whether or not this could work as a wedge on the republicans? >> no, i think no question, i mean you're absolutely right, the polling suggests that rank and file republicans are exactly where most democrats are. and i really is a couple of holdouts, one of which is the restaurant industry, which is very powerful on the republican side in congress, i think something like 50%, 60% of minimum wage workers work in the restaurant industry. it's understandable why they're so agitated about this. th that is not a -- even close to a majority opinion in the republican party, much less the entire country. so i think you're right, it's absolutely a main stream issue and these other questions are very much main stream as well. if you look at regulation of wall street. linda lake does reporting for regulation of the financial sector. that's gone from something like 70% immediately after the crisis, to like 80% now. they're not by any means restricted to democratic voters. >> noam shriver, thanks for being here. this issue about economic pop him is one of the things that the belt way will always p oo-poo the issue. every time americans go there, they tend to win, whether it's crusading on something like regulating water, and thrown ousted an incumbent senator by eight points. when democrats work this stuff, it generally wins with them and the only thing you can tell is how loud the beltway blocks is going to fail every time. and the light comes on. it's our job to make sure that it does. using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. generating electricity that's cleaner and reliable, with fewer emissions-- it matters. ♪ wears off. 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