missouri state senator jamila nasheed and beverly douglas, a fast food minimum wage worker are both here to talk with us. beverly, tell me about what you have been currently making as a fast food employee. well, i was making $7.90 for a company that i have been working for for ten years. and when the wage increase went into effect, how did that impact your salary and how you were able to live? well, it helped me tremendously. it was an extra $400 a month for me to feed my family, to pay my bills, and to live, so it helped tremendously. are you surprised that this is going in reverse? well, i m not really surprised, but i m disappointed.
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wanted to disrupt the conservative rhetoric and take a look at corporate welfare and the dependency culture that conservative economic theories are fostering. my panel is back with me. erin, start with you. this report about walmart that came out this week, they actually refuted parts of it but it kind of recon firms something we all knew low-paid workers end up having to rely on the very programs that we hear the rhetoric from conservatives that are ruining the country. you had paul ryan say we don t want the social safety net to become a hammock. this idea that public benefits are being used by people who are not working, who are just guzzling the resources of the system. in fact, it is impossible to feed your family on the wages of a walmart or fast food employee. these are necessary public benefits, particularly when the minimum wage is so low and when the benefits are so hard to come by. especially if you live in a state where that has not expanded medicaid. you have an entire
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