that in america s criminal justice system we deincarcerate women and children, end solitary confinement and work on keeping families in intact. when you finish your term in prison you should not only be able to vote but have access to housing, to pell grants. i recently spoke to several amazing women working to improve the lives of women who have been incarcerated. they ve teemed up with an organization called ladies of hope ministries. and its founder topeka k. sams turned her own story of incarceration into action. watch this. tell me a bit about your story of incarceration and what you ve tried to do to help on the other side. right. for sure. growing up in new york, born and raised in long island, two parent home, franchise business
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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.
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workers, or cut into margins. if they raise prices, a more expensive burger, they are going to sell fewer of them. they can t cut into margins right now. most of these are small franchise business owners that don t have those margins. and if you think mcdonalds a big bad global corporation, do you honestly think that they would cut their margins? they are going to cut back on workers and labor. they have a certain amount of money that they spend on labor. whether you have 10 people or 112 people. speaking of the fact that money doesn t grow on trees, those people are on food stamps. that money doesn t grow on trees. those are federal taxpayer dollars going to feed families for people who work at mcdonald s. they are not paying their family enough to feed their families. do you want to pay twice for a wendy s quarter pounder with
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