things done. to that end, hiking the minimum wage in your state p. a lot of business groups, chamber of commerce, state restaurant association. they are livid, furious. they actually weren t. in the end. this was a compromise. a buy partisan compromise. there was a ballot proposal that would have been devastate being going to 1010 not just for regular workers but for tip workers if you think about that. this goes to $9.25 in a number of years. there had been no increase since wait and if you look at the steps, had this is a very rational plan i think was a good compromise. you had it all, you thought would be something more onerous to businesses. when they come back and worry about job flight, what do you say? i talked to the business community. again, this was about people working to the to understand here are the options and isn t it better to work in a constructive fashion to bring both parties zpogt bring the business community and look at the other people out there in
house republicans are going to go nuts on this. some of them don t think their ought to be a minimum wage. you have to take it to its simplest point. if you believe that raising the minimum wage would lose jobs, it never should have been raised from the time it was a buck in the 50s and the 60s. we have created about 80 million jobs since then. no, i don t see it this way. i think there s strong support. i think we see the states moving forward. everybody knows that you can t work full-time and be in poverty. it makes no sense. they ll make a fuss over it, but when you look through it, at the end of the day, it s going to be good. two-thirds of those on the minimum wage are women and two-thirds of tip workers are. can anyone argue that a tipped worker should be paid $2.13 an hour? i would love to have this
and they were talking about how, i don t want to be on food stamps any more, i want to be self-sustaining, they talk about the dignity of work, they talk about the choices they have to make between medicine and food. that s not america. we can do better than that. americans deserve a raise. tip workers deserve a raise. everyone deserves a raise here above so that we have the basic dignity of work in which we reward work, and we don t subsidize business models that force people into food stamps, into other public benefits. that s not who we are. secretary of labor always a pleasure, thank you so much. always a pleasure. joining me now is ron und. he was at the white house today as president obama signed the executive order. i ve been following very closely your campaign to sell conservatives on raising the minimum wage. give me the elevator pitch. i m a conservative billionaire, we end up at the same
they haven t gotten a raise in years, until the voters gave them a raise. and they were talking about how, i don t want to be on food stamps any more, i want to be self-sustaining, they talk about the dignity of work, they talk about the choices they have to make between medicine and food. that s not america. we can do better than that. americans deserve a raise. tip workers deserve a raise. everyone deserves a raise here above so that we have the basic dignity of work in which we reward work, and we don t subsidize business models that force people into food stamps, into other public benefits. that s not who we are. secretary of labor always a pleasure, thank you so much. always a pleasure. joining me now is ron und. he was at the white house today as president obama signed the executive order. i ve been following very closely your campaign to sell
stamps any more, i want to be self-sustaining, they talk about the dignity of work, they talk about the choices they have to make between medicine and food. that s not america. we can do better than that. americans deserve a raise. tip workers deserve a raise. everyone deserves a raise here above so that we have the basic dignity of work in which we reward work, and we don t subsidize business models that force people into food stamps, into other public benefits. that s not who we are. secretary of labor always a pleasure, thank you so much. always a pleasure. joining me now is ron und. he was at the white house today as president obama signed the executive order. i ve been following very closely your campaign to sell conservatives on raising the minimum wage. give me the elevator pitch. i m a conservative billionaire, we end up at the same conference.