The minimum wage was in 1968. In todays dollars the wage back then is 10. 90 an hour. Families of three where only one works to try and survive on this minimum wage fall way below the poverty level. This in a country with some of the worst income inequality in the developed world. It is not hard to understand why a majority of americans want the federal government to take action on this. That majority does not include billionaire donald trump, ted cruz or john kasich. These gentleman, of course, are vying for the republican nomination for president. They want to leave the federal minimum wage where it is. The standard conservative argument against raising it rests on the claims that doing so is a job killer and later in the show i will talk to someone who shares that view. On the democratic side Bernie Sanders wants to boost the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour. Thats the amount that fast food workers, their supporters and labor groups have been pushing for years. Hillary clinton sup
Actually a third lower than what the minimum wage was in 1968. In todays dollars the wage back then is 10. 90 an hour. Families of three where only one works to try and survive on this minimum wage fall way below the poverty level. This in a country with some of the worst income inequality in the developed world. It is not hard to understand why a majority of americans want the federal government to take action on this. That majority does not include billionaire donald trump, ted cruz or john kasich. These gentleman, of course, are vying for the republican nomination for president. They want to leave the federal minimum wage where it is. The standard conservative argument against raising it rests on the claims that doing so is a job killer and later in the show i will talk to someone who shares that view. On the democratic side Bernie Sanders wants to boost the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour. Thats the amount that fast food workers, their supporters and labor groups have been pushi
Workers. The current minimum wage is actually a third lower than what the minimum wage was in 1968. In todays dollars the wage back then is 10. 90 an hour. Families of three where only one works to try and survive on this minimum wage fall way below the poverty level. This in a country with some of the worst income inequality in the developed world. It is not hard to understand why a majority of americans want the federal government to take action on this. That majority does not include billionaire donald trump, ted cruz or john kasich. These gentleman, of course, are vying for the republican nomination for president. They want to leave the federal minimum wage where it is. The standard conservative argument against raising it rests on the claims that doing so is a job killer and later in the show i will talk to someone who shares that view. On the democratic side Bernie Sanders wants to boost the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour. Thats the amount that fast food workers, their suppor
Effort on president ial powers. Good morning to you. Welcome to early start. Im jessica dean. And im dave briggs. It is thursday, march 14. We start with the 2020 feield exnd banding this morning. Beto orourke ready to run. He is in iowa for three days of events and he already confirmed he is sbis entering the race fo president. In a text message, he says im really proud of what el paso did and what el paso represents. It is a big part of why im running. Before that, orourke told v vanivanity fair, you can prob tell i want to run. I think ill be good at it. This is the fight of our lives, not the fight of my political life. I want to be in it, man. Im just born to be in it. Sounds like springsteen. He is a red state democrat who lost a tight race to ted cruz, but that election launched him into the national spotlight. I raised a whopping 80 million. 44 of that money came from out of state. Orourke joins a primary field of more than a dozen Democratic Candidates and he says there is an
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