The minimum wage. You have a population thats aging, a big part of the population and a lot of people who are taking care of people who are older are older themselves and financially vulnerable. Some would argue that raising the minimum wage at this point actually makes that harder because it makes it harder for people to get the care they need at a price they can afford. How does Something Like that get resolved in your opinion . We need to show that were all dependent on one another. You have people who are care givers for their parents, care givers for children, care givers for the sick and disabled. They all care about each other in a community. Its not caregiver against person being cared for. We need to figure out ways, and i think they spoke about this on on the panel earlier this morning, we talk about how we value care in our society. Somebody caring for elderly parents or working as a Home Health Aide earning Poverty Level wages, thats not good for the caregiver or the person
Not living at the mercy of tips. Ers [applause] stagease welcome to the our guests. [applause] hi everybody. We have heard from a movement leader, activists, and organizer. Before that, we heard from a senator. Those were conversations about policies. The idea is to bring it back to the ground level. Speak to some of the individual people who might be affected by some of these changes. Ho can tell us our stories what it is like to be an individual human being. A young woman living life in america today. Hopefully that will be a valuable perspective. This is a lie fed session life ed session. Kelsey come and from the leadership project in new york. We will hopefully have a bit of a conversation roundrobin style. We will start with the question of what challenges have you gone through . We will start with you, gracie. One of the biggest struggles i have had to overcome has been my financial situation with my mother. She is a single mother. My father left around 2006. It has been pretty r