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
Worldwide a big night for conservatives in local and state elections. For the second time in 40 years a republican won the governors race in kentucky. Many see it rahs a referendum see it as a referendum in the Affordable Care act. It was an offyear election, voters getting a sign of what may come in the 2016 president ial race. We begin in ohio, where voters struck down an attempt to legalize recreational and medical marijuana. Bisi onileere is there. This was an interesting mix of people that tweeted the measure. Yes, this is a huge upset for those who before legalized marijuana, there were a number of wealthy investors who backed this, spending millions to get the measure past. They were, in the end tweeted. There were a number of Law Enforcement agency suggests, hospitals, religious groups and schools, vocal against the legalization ofle marijuana, a lot taking issue with the term monopoly, that it was unfair that preselected wealthy investors had preference and had rights to 10 si
Announcement around 8 00 this morning. Well send the alert to your phone through the nbc washington app. Right now were watching hurricane patricia. Right now its headed toward mexico. It could be the strongest storm on record to ever hit the country. The National Hurricane center is calling it potentially catastrophic. Its heading toward a big resort area. One resort is going to be evacuated. Pa treesh ya is expected to make landfall this afternoon. 4 31. Time for weather traffic on the 1s. Chuck bell has your weather. Yes, indeedy. Not too bad of visibility. You can still see the u. S. Capitol building in downtown washington. Current temperatures, how about this out the door. Low 60s in the shenandoah valley. Mid50s in the suburbs and downtown. Compared to yesterday its considerably milder. This afternoon even though were off to a milder start, well have a cooler day. North to northwesterly wind. Could be breezy at times. That will hold. Nowhere near as warm as that 76degree day we e