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
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