Mcdonald s had this $15 an hour fast food wage, they d have to raise prices by 25%. that doesn t just hurt their customers. when their customers stop buying as much, they ll have to lay off workers. a 25% price hike is going to meet a lot fewer jobs. that s going to lead these workers into an even worse situation. when i look at the profit margins at mcdonald s and the fact that the prices are already so incredibly low and profit margins at this company and many companies in america are record highs, i m not that worried about labor taking a little more share of the pie. we could discuss this forever. thanks for the debate. rana foroohar, james shirk, i ll be right back. i m m-a-r-y and i have copd.
Make $8 an hour. i work at great reps and i make $9 an hour. tales of two people but one story. pamela and shaneda are just two of a million workers living on a fast food wage. i pay my light bills, i pay my days. i never have enough. right now she has to prioritize. i ve had lights turned off, too. it s kind of hard without lights. how do you make ends meet? let s say you go to the grocery store? my husband and i eat today or i eat tomorrow. pamela and shaneda both work less than 40 hours a week. neither of them get benefits. it s hard to build a future if we don t know what it s going to bring you. next week. you don t know what s going on
my name is shenita simon and i work at kfc in brooklyn and i make $8 an hour. i i make $9 an hour. tale of two people and one story. they re just two of the 3 million workers living on a fast food wage. pay my light bill, should i pay gas? i never could pay it all at once. pamela loves her job. fries, fries, fries. says she has to prioritize. right now the gas is off. i have had lights to be cut off, too, but it is kind of hard to live without lights. how do you make ends meet? say you go to the grocery store. i have to sacrifice. i eat today and my husband eats tomorrow or just to make sure my kids eat. they both work less than 40 hours a week. neither of them get benefits. kind of hard to build a future if you don t know what it
Unions without retaliation. alison kosik is live at a wendy s now and she joins me now. good morning, alison. good morning, carol. some of those protests here in new york started this morning and other protests started across the country, as you said, thousands of these fast food workers are expected to walk off the job today as a protest for higher wages. they are looking to get paid double. more than double the federal minimum wage. the federal minimum wage sitting at 7:25 right now. as you are about to see in this piece, some of these fast food workers say they re barely making ends meet. i work at kfc in brooklyn and i make $8 an hour. my name is pamela powell, i make $9 an hour. reporter: tale of two people, but one story. they re just 2 of the 3 million workers living on a fast food