minimum wage by 2020 making la the largest city many the nation to adopt a major minimum wage hike the rest of us better pay attention. the lone councilman that voted against the bill did not speak tuesday morning. i want to get his opinion. also here is fellow council member price who cowrote the minimum wage proposal. councilman price, do you worry los angeles created a wage island are from which be businesses will now flee? no not at all. income disparities and poverty is a big issue in california. cost of living is up. housing prices are up. yet the minimum wages are down and have remained stagnant. we think this is the right thing to do increasing the wage to 15 dollars an hour. be mindful, talking only $33,000
and was approved to be an inmate assistive program worker. my job is to help the mobility impaired, help cleaning their cells, they need to go to chow or get pills. daniel hopes that the responsibility will prepare him to one day hold down a job on the outside and mentor his younger brother. if i can work in here, i can work on the streets, and if i can work for five cents, i can work for $5. what is better, five cents or $5? 15 cents or 15 dollars? i feel good. i feel like a man. bryan has chosen to work in a different capacity. i just want to introduce our speaker today. it s bryan, and you know him as lefty. he s going to come to give us a wonderful sermon on john 3:16. so come on up. [ applause ] i didn t like the guy i was. i wasn t the person i told everybody else i was.
assistant program worker. i am to help the mobility impaired to help clean themselves and if they need to go to chow or get pills. daniel hopes that the responsibility will prepare him to one day hold down a job on the outside and mentor his younger brother. if i can work in here, i can work on the streets, and if i can work for five cents, i can work for $5. what is better, five cents or $5? 15 cents or 15 dollars? i feel good. i feel like a man. bryan has chosen to work in a different capacity. i just want to introduce our speaker today. it s bryan, and you know him as lefty. he s going to come to give us a wonderful sermon on john 3: 16. so come on up. [ applause ] i didn t like the guy i was. i wasn t the person i told everybody else i was. i definitely was not the man i
eastern for america s news headquaters. now back to forbes on fox. welcome back. let s go over to seattle where these workers won their fight for a $15 minimum wage. that s the highest in the country. but now, a group of franchise business owners are fighting back with a lawsuit to stop it. we re going to take it to our guest. rich, you say we all better hope they win. how come? you know, seattle has been in a boom and now at the very apex of their boom, part of which includes this great tourism industry and restaurants and so forth, this $15 minimum wage is going to put serious hurt on the restaurants and service workers. it sounds good. seattle is an expensive place to live. 15 dollars an hour is not much. it s just that it won t work. tips are going to go down. jobs are going to disappear. it s going to have a negative impact. what do you think rick? we re already hearing from businesses that are going to have to lay off people.
and opened up your boxes of froot loops and you got your toy. the both box of cereal was worth 15 dollars and the toy 15 cents. it is the same thing with the scavenger hunt fueled by twitter. anything that becomes a trend, people want to participate and say i did that too. it makes them feel cool. dr. williams, we re all adults now. we should be over this phenomenon. i remember in college, they would set up the booth free t-shirt if you sign up for a credit card. a stupid t-shirt and we would do th-fplt what does it say about our culture? we like free stuff, whether a free pen, a t-shirt or 20 tkphrars or 20 dollars for starbucks somewhere. it s almost like magic. that child-like joy we have for getting free things and