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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20141204:14:44:00

Complete pie in the sky, totally dismissed out of hand. two years later, we have rahm emanuel throwing his full support behind chicago s 13 minimum wage. cityies in san francisco and seattle passing $15 an hour minimum wages. fast food workers have put this urban at map. have put the fact that income inequality is a huge problem in this country on the map. and have said we need to raise the wage floor to account for higher cost of living to make sure it epcoups s keeps up. it s a big day across the country. that s right, 160 cities on strike. thank you both for being with me this morning. thank you so much. thank you. and after the break, the fallout for president obama s immigration action. two texas politicians are leading the fight. there you see them both. i ll talk with a third crucial texas voice to get his take. joins me next. ....

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CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS June 22, 2014 14:28:00

Inequality. it s the center piece of president obama s agenda now. it s even inspired an unlikely best seller. people watch the growing inequality around the world and in the united states and despair about what to do. one of the most popular fixes is raising the minimum wage, and that s not just on the left. germany s chancellor angela merkel has recently supported a new wage increase as has brittain s chancellor, conservative george osborne. in the united states president obama proposed boosting the federal minimum wage to $10.10 in the beginning of the year. that s a 39% increase over the current minimum wage of $7.25. republicans have, of course, made it clear that they will never pass this in congress. this week the international monetary fund weighed in and urged the u.s. to raise the wage floor saying it is low by both historical and international standards. the federal minimum wage in america was about 38% of the ....

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CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS June 22, 2014 17:28:00

President obama s agenda now. it s even inspired an unlikely best seller. people watch the growing inequality around the world and in the united states and despair about what to do. one of the most popular fixes is raising the minimum wage. and that s not just on the left. germany s chancellor angela merkel has recently supported a new wage increase as has britain s chancellor, the conservative george osborne. in the united states, president obama proposed boosting the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour in the beginning of the year. that s a 39% increase over the current minimum wage of $7.25. republicans have, of course, made it clear they will never pass this in congress. this week, the international monetary fund weighed in and urged the u.s. to raise the wage floor saying it is low by both historical and international standards. the federal minimum wage in america was about 38% of the median wage in 2011. which is one of the lowest ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140608:12:38:00

The federal poverty line. one organization estimates it will pump nearly a half million. a movement to raise the minimum wage begins with the workers organizing and demonstrating, but the deal to make it happen dates back to september when the then mayoral candidate pledged to set a $15 wage floor. he picked two leaders, from a business and from organized labor and gave him four months to can come up with a plan that got to $15 an hour. they gave him an ultimatum. if they failed, he vowed to present the city council with his proposal that both sides were sure to hate. they didn t fail and presented the compromise plan to the council. it was approved. it s not just seattle. in the last year, eight states increased min pull wages. the most 2006. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140608:12:37:00

. we heard a lot about the progressive wave sweeping america. senator elizabeth born in massachusetts and deblasio in new york city. have you heard of ed murray? he s the mayor of seattle and led the city to approve the highest minimum wage of anyplace in the country. they approved a $15 wage floor to take effect over the course of the next seven years, more than twice the current national minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. they are in washington state with a $9.32 minimum wage that is the highest in effect in the country right now. it is indexed to infligz that rises by odd amounts each year. about a quarter of the population earns less than $15 an hour, about 14% live below ....

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