>> i haven't gone to college but i'm trying to fight for my career and fight to go to college and better my life and be more successful. >> dan is the chief economist. on a human level i want all of those people to make $15 an hour, $50 an hour. >> we all want them to make a lot of money, of course. >> there's a lot of reasons you find yourself in these jobs. but on on economic level, what does it fix to raise the wages? >> well, you know, there's a tenuous forces right now. a little bit of increase, some ceos are going to have to start thinking about it. when people were miserable they figured what do i have to lose to fighting back and unionizing. what many of these workers -- what many of these ceos risk and the companies work is unionization. of course, the unions have been also pushing this a little bit as well. they're not all the workers that are out there protesting. some are union plants. >> getting more effective over the past year a and half or so. >> they have been. their message resonates.