children have the opportunity earn a path to citizenship and contribute to what they know is home. that s what the selection is about. stomping for president obama. she s with me with howard buffet and feeding america s hungry children. let s talk about minimum wage for a moment, eva, because a big problem is so many people in the particular poverty hunger lack of education trap that we ve talked about fall below the him mum wage. people have full-time jobs that live in poverty. that s ridiculous. recently the fast food workers walked out and went on a strike, and i worked in the fast food industry. i worked at wendy s for four years. i remember, that was like an extra job in high school. some people, that s their full-time job to feed their families. so, yeah, i think minimum wage absolutely has to change. as inflation goes, as the economy is. but also, when we talk about wages, and we talk about
talking about there s an enormous push behind getting some kind of a living wage or minimum wage passed. nothing much is happening in washington. president obama was in favor of a $9 minimum wage. now in favor of a $10.10-minute mum wage. not a lot going on in congress. in the states you can see there s a lot more going on. california recently passed a bill to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $10. the highest in the country. district of columbia they are about to pass, i think, legislation that would take it up over $11. doing this in concert with two maryland counties because you want to avoid the factor if you raise the minimum wage in one place, walmart threatened not to go to washington. this is a controversial subject. in the context the bottom fifth of american families have lost 15% of their real income since
$ 15. today s work stoppage expected to involve fast food chains in 100 cities. even president obama s offering moral support. we know we re going to have a greater and greater portion of our people in the service sector and we know that there are aren t workers and fast food workers and nurse assistants and retail salespeople who work their tails off and still living at or barely above poverty and that s why it s well past the time to raise a minute mum wage. executive with the white castle burger change, playing employee $15 would kill the company. other news, state department has now confirmed that a united states citizen was killed in benghazi, libya.
pseudoexperimental testing to see if the negative impacts come forth. moderate increases in the minimum wage of which i would call this, do what they are supposed to do, help boost the earnings of those at the bottom of the pay scale and they have been left behind. i m all for it. i think it would boost the earnings of people at the bottom of the pay scale if they kept their jobs. the places where we see local minimum wages tend to be wages in general are higher and where there are better employment prospects. i don t know it s meaningful to say because the minimum wage is higher in washington state than raising it in mississippi won t cause unemployment. that said, let s bear in mind the minimum wage is woefully low by historic standards. if we re going to have a money mum wage and economist will accept that, then it clearly is not set where it should be. i think that s well put. i will say that the studies have tried to control for presisly the thing peter is talking
it leans democratic but a majority of those in the center agree with a mix of republican and democratic ideas. now, this group of voters show a majority consensus coming to their views of the country. and on social issues, this majority center overwhelmingly backs issues like paid maternity leave, raising the men mum wage, gay marriage and abortion rights. similarly, recent focus groups of walmart moms across the country also show that while they re unhappy with washington, the idea of compromise isn t such a dirty word anymore. did you hear that, speaker boehner? could the mood of the middle have an impact on the 2014 midterm races next year? joining me are two guests. welcome to you both. hi, karen. pleasure to be here. great. m margey i was fascinated to listen to the conversation with the walmart moms and so