it s trump-onomics. today he declared his stance on the minimum wage and it is pure donald trump. i want to create jobs so you don t have to worry about the minimum wage. you re doing a job making much more than the minimum wage. but i think having a low minimum wage is not a bad thing for this country. it s one thing opposed to, to oppose raising the minimum wage. but for a billionaire to openly celebrate low wages? now that s something. strip it away and the other candidates sound a lot like him. just listen to senator marco rubio telling the story of a fictional business owner who is against the minimum wage.
nice to meet you. if we can just have you take a seat. this is the application form. okay. john has come to tca to sign up for the supplemental nutrition assistance program, also known as snap, or food stamps. today, 1 in 7 americans rely on food stamps to keep from going hungry and in louisiana a whopping 1 in 5 depend on the program. have you signed up for assistance before? i have not. so what brought you in for assistance today? what was the deciding factor? i mean, things are just getting tough, man. you know, i haven t been working in a while, and i stay at home, i take care of our son. and it s been this way now for a little over a year. it doesn t work, man. you know what i mean? why do you think it s been so hard for you to find work? my job as a bricklayer in the union just evaporated. i mean, it was just gone. there was no more. you know, i had a job making $25 an hour and a nice, you know,
side, there s a church there called the adalberto united methodist. nothing fancy. a handful of short pews and a decorated altar. at chicago s o hare airport, a woman had a job making $6.50 an hour cleaning out planes. not a great job. not a high-paying job. but a job. she was a young single mother. she got caught up in an immigration sweep of low-wage workers at the airport. she did not have the right immigration status. she was not supposed to be working that kind of job. though she fought through the legal resources she had after that sweep, eventually she received a deadline notice from the department of homeland security demanding she report to the homeland security office in chicago by 9:00 a.m. on a specific day whereupon she would be deported back to mexico. beyond the fact that she did not want to go, herself, she also had a 7-year-old son named saul who had been born in this country, who lived his whole life in chicago. he was a u.s. citizen.
in a neighborhood called humboldt park on chicago s west side, there s a church there called the alderboto united methodist. nothing fancy. a handful of short pews and a decorated altar. at chicago s o hare airport, a woman had a job making $6.50 an hour cleaning out planes. not a great job. not a high-paying job. but a job. she was a young single mother. she got caught up in an immigration sweep of low-wage workers at the airport. she did not have the right immigration status. she was not supposed to be working that kind of job. though she fought through the legal resources she had after that sweep, eventually she received a deadline notice from the department of homeland security demanding she report to the homeland security office in chicago by 9:00 a.m. on a specific day whereupon she would be deported back to mexico. beyond the fact that she did not want to go, herself, she also had a 7-year-old son named saul who had been born in this
no doubt very concerned about this water. joe manchin joining us from the capitol. many people would like to know what exactly you are doing and what is being done by the governors and others to help those in this crisis? i spoke to the governor and they have a response team that is very good. i was very pleased that the president declared an emergency earlier this afternoon. homeland security i ve spoken to our secretary of homeland security and also the director of fema and everybody has been working doing a job making sure that we have water, everything that is humanly possible but it s a great concern when 300,000 west virginians, something that is so vital, and then find out who is the culprit and what type of things we can