development. he is subject to the united nation s travel ban and this travel ban requires all states to prohibit him from traveling to their nation and the only exception to that if the iran sanction s committee grants an exception. which they didn t. according to western sources, he a ratified on friday on iran flight 5130 and departed three days before secretary of state john kerry testified about the nuclear deal. under the united states initiative he will never be relieved of any sanctions. in moscow, he met with president vladimar putin and the defense minister. this comes as a u.s. arms
that, you know, they re about business. speaker boehner s argue is that it would then make it difficult for businesses to hire people because it would then become more expensive. it s this weird, vicious cycle that ends up having poor, working class people end up getting nothing from all of the hard work that they re doing. exactly. and, joan, just so that we re clear, the reason the president wants to raise minimum wage, a single parent with one child working full time, if the parent is working full time, at minimum wage now earns just $14,500. the poverty line is $15,130. how is that right?
challenge in south carolina, that this guy is willing to say something, like, the president s cheer leading for gun control. you know what i think the president was doing? he was channelling and speaking for the people who have lost loved ones all over this country because this country is becoming a free fire zone. and many of them sitting in that chamber last night. michelle, let he go back to bob s point on the minimum wage. one of the things that is stunning, absolutely stunning, working full time at minimum wage, they only earn $14,500. the poverty line is $15,130. how do you deal with the fact that a minimum wage is below the poverty line? do republicans really want america to be a country where you can work 40 hours a week and still live under the poverty
does not reduce employment in any way. it actually helps people get jobs and helps bring people out of the middle class. judith, a worker making the current minimum wage of $7.25 an hour would earn $14,500 a year. now, the federal poverty level for a family of two is $15,130. timothy miller has suggested the president s proposal to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour doesn t go far enough. do you agree? that s right. i mean, americans want a living wage. $9 an hour is still not enough especially if you are raising a family. we have over 14 million families in this country. women and men who actually make a minimum wage. and it s not enough. so when you work hard and you take the responsibility of having a job and raising a family, this is not enough. we need to put americans back to work, but we also need to make
suzanne malveaux. i want to get you up to speed for wednesday, august 31st. firefighters are calling in air tankers to battle wildfires outside of dallas. more than two dozen homes have burned in palo pinto county and firefighters say the fire is 25% contained. several hundred people had to pack up and run as fires spread. texas is in the middle of an epic drought and heat wave that is dragging all summer long. reporter: more than 100 homes are in jeopardy and those who lost their homes are devastated. it happened so quickly and i was thinking not again. this time it happened like, now. before we knew it was coming, it was taking time. a brush fire overran several homes and this church in oklahoma city. crews say the fire, it is contained, but they re working hard today to make sure it doesn t flare up again. irene, long gone, but folks are still feeling miserable in parts of the northeast. forecasters say the pasaeic river in new jersey has peaked but it probably w