this social responsibility. from a sentiment standpoint, the shift is hugely positive. but can it be trusted? think about this. something not mentioned in the letters, ceo pay. executive compensation for the 100 highest paid ceos in the country, they re making 254 times the median income of employees at their company. so dan can talk all day long what employees are demanding and what they care about. you know what they care about? providing for their families. that s not mentioned here. they care about pay, health care coverage. look at the signatories on this letter who have been aggressive lobbyists against an increase in the minimum wage. walmart is a perfect example. they have been opposing minimum wage increases for years and years. i don t recall if mcdonald s is on the list. another corporate welfare queen who wants tax subsidies for employees in the guise of aid to dependent children, food stamps and other things. they used to have a mchelp line
minimum wage increases. but we have really dislocated something from we saw in the past. then you have to pay your managers more. some large employers have cut the pay of somethimanagers or eliminated that pay. so all of a sudden the middle class gets left out again, and finally we re getting wage gains for the low wage workers. every time i talk to you about this i get a little smarter, you always bring me something i didn t know and i always appreciate that. diane, chief economist. coming up, live in syria, preparing for the final battle to clear out the last isis stronghold in the country. plus i m joined by a journalist who is just come back from syria to talk to the women of siisis
process and then the roads could be shear ice as the temperature drops. so that s going to be a big concern across the northern plains and the you were midwest where we could see record cold temperatures. so, we will be following all of those stories in the next couple of days. steve: a lot of weather news today. yep. steve: thank you. 22 minutes now before the top of the hour. and jillian joins us. jillian: good morning. how does this sound? vacation for all. new york democratic mayor blaze wantdeblasio businesses te new yorkers 10 days vacation. sounds good, right? here is some of the problem. the business owners say the cost on top of minimum wage increases would be too much to handle. new york would become the first place in the country to require that much paid vacation time. right now employers are required to give employees five days off. as more democrats announce 2020 presidential runs. fewer of them want bill clinton s advice. so far, none of the parties early frontrunners
in part because of the climate change effort and also in part because we have such a success story in my state. we have grown the greatest gdp growth, the best job creation, because we ve embraced these progressive policies. the first state to do net neutrality. the best family paid leave. one of the biggest minimum wage increases. gender day equity laws, a big transportation package. when they can t build a birdhouse in washington, d.c. so my potential candidacy is not just around climate change, although this is attracted people s interest in it. people have understood we need someone with executive experience who has more than speeches on their resume but actual accomplishments. i have that from the state of washington and want to bring washington s success to the whole country. governor jay inslee. thank you very much for being here, sir. thank you, good luck. we ll be watching for any developments in your potential campaign. thank you. when we come back a potential 2020
as what frederick douglass called the slave master s religion versus the religion of christ. it s always been a part of the american construct that we misinterpret. on that note, i want to bring in jason johnson, who is politics editor of theroot.com. at a certain point what i think a lot of people don t understand is how raw self-interest doesn t over come this. these are the same people who are cutting out health care, who are taking away living wages, who are denying minimum wage increases, who are saying we will leave you poorer. we refuse to let you have higher wages. you cannot have health care or medicaid. the same people saying we will now boldly cut the richest people s taxes and raise yours so we can afford it for them. when does raw self-interest overcome this decamping to a