accommodations of the former president and first lady this evening. and the first full day in office since thursday, he has seemingly become more popular than ever. in one week the 44th president picked up more than 3 million twitter followers rising from 80.7 million on thursday to more than 83 million today. at that point, i don t know if you can even notice it, but obama now ranks fourth in terms of twitter followers behind katy perry, justin bieber and taylor swift. the managing editor expects the president to pass taylor swift by the end of the week. president trump s currently got 21.72 followers behind courtney cay dashkardashian and right in front of nasa. doctors tweeting former president george h.w. bush and his wife barbara give us an update on their conditions. we are back in a moment.
kept pace. so where are we? people are working harder for much less. and if the minimum wage kept up with productivity, where would we be? well, it would be at $21.72 an hour. think about that. think about our economy if people had that kind of disposable income. the president is proposing $9, a third of what the amount really should be if you do the math? now, this country does not and never has had a good record of raising the minimum wage in recent history especially. the current wage was only reached in 2009 after three years of minimum minor increases. you have to go back to 1997 to find the last time it was really increased, to $5.15 an hour. but republicans seem determined to keep the wage as low as they possibly can, below the poverty line. and this is what the president talked about the other night in the state of the union address. it s getting people out of poverty. marco rubio came out against raising the minimum wage, between sips of water.
but the minimum wage has not kept pace. so where are we? people are working harder for much less. and if the minimum wage kept up with productivity, where would we be? well, it would be at $21.72 an hour. think about that. think about our economy if people had that kind of disposable income. the president is proposing $9, a third of what the amount really should be if you do the math? now, this country does not and never has had a good record of raising the minimum wage in recent history especially. the current wage was only reached in 2009 after three years of minimum minor increases. you have to go back to 1997 to find the last time it was really increased, to $5.15 an hour. but republicans seem determined to keep the wage as low as they possibly can, below the poverty line. and this is what the president talked about the other night in