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so this terrible american concepts i mean in my eyes i mean we're headed down
a path if we do not change time this conversation if we don't get a hold of
our a political on policy apparatus to to ensure by the people are made hole in
the people can actually afford to survive and thrive in this nation
that we will be heading back brace and has a minimum wage plan to that
you know if you go back in a and a confessed to having not noticed this
into literally a few weeks ago
uh... if you go back to the really postwar era that period from by the end
of world war two talk to them it's
the minimum wage kept up not just with inflation with but with productivity
growth and the crew it was an accident there was an ideologue we wanna make
sure everyone shares in the gains of economic growth
sixties name which hasn't even kept up with inflation
demand that the legislation for the bomber propose rate in them which the
nine dollars an hour i mean that's great thing and they were talking about all
increase of over three thousand dollars for the lowest paid workers on country
hard to say that the death and but they have to be to get us back to where we
were in the late sixties where we were uh... you know at this point forty five
years ago wispy at the minimum wage it kept pace with productivity in other
words that workers
often done anything with it
sharing the gains of economic growth minimum wage today would be about
sixteen fifty an hour
week-and-a-half credible thing to think about this morning
forty percent of all men get
the more than fifty percent of all women get we'd be in a very very different
countries that were the case he lost a lot of ground
i recently i went into signing for a friend of mine who handle com behind the
kitchen door innocent out demand only is mean deep meaningful than others for
restaurant workers
which is actually lower than the national minimum wage and and it's been
stagnant for decades as well
uh... and so he you know they're now pushing to actually tank the minimum
wage for restaurant workers to the national minimum wage
do you have any insight on that
yet know this incredible thing again the courses that very few people have a lot
of people policy debate on where businesses
separate minimum wage protected for years
and i forget when the that win at last has been uh... increase a i think that
they expect from the mid eighties further three fifteen our commitment i
exactly what it is lower than that
formed and that uh... you know the presumption is that you didn't get that
made up with the exception obviously you know if you work in the expense of
restaurant daniel pinkwater big meals whatever that may be true but for a lot
of people that are working at your coffee shops no you know that i'm making
up to what that means is that
give a lot of people working in the russian on sector that of getting
considerably worse than the minimum wage which you know through an incredible
thing 'cause seven point five hours not exactly uh... living high on the hog
laughing actually i did not sign a had people on workers and some workers who
testified that
negatives used as an actually says this is not a and
uh... this is not a payment and and it's actually negative because attacks
actually wipe away there based on minimum wage
an image is in dire dire straits forcing him to do all kinds of things as those
that terrible thing
when people actually work in this country and they can't make it
yeah you know if peres
strikingly does it you go back and hear the forties and fifties
sixties because it wasn't you know i wish we were the cause of this country i
mean we where he was very much a couple's country companies were making
big profits
but yet there was uh... can
senses fewer republicans that support this true that you know that you can get
a big difference you know that you get out now on the white house in some ways
uh... we're never going to raise the minimum wage again you know this is a
possible colspan from this idea that everyone she sharing the gains of
prosperity
in deathbed ideas just disappear that we're getting this this notion somehow
you know for paying our workers more than working women here that the course
contrary andy and latin america structure africa wherever might be
that somehow that we can't do that which is not just incredible story