Resistance To Minimum Wage Increase Ignores Broad Support Of American Voters | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Rep. Pramila Jayapal talks with Rachel Maddow about the overwhelming popularity among American voters of all political stripes of raising the federal minimum wage to $15, and the need for Democrats to show they can get these important things done when they hold power in Washington, D.C. Aired on 02/25/2021.
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Resistance To Minimum Wage Increase Ignores Broad Support Of American Voters | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

48 comments

    1. Well they identify as menen. They have all functional parts so Whatever bathroom is quicker to get through will determine that question for the day

  1. The cost of living needs to come down not raise the minimum wage. The housing market has tripled. This prices are outrageous.

    1. @Brandon Bernard So only ghettos have poor people in them, hu? Wow, this just goes to show that you have no life experience whatsoever and have probably never stepped foot outside of your little safe space wherever you live. Ever been to run down trailer park or a shanty town up in the Appalachians? Because I have. And they were full of people in financial distress or “poor” for lack of a better word. Weren’t no “inner city ghettos” around for a 100 miles in any direction.

    2. @Sandra Lewis lmao i dont make bad decisions, which is probably why I rely on nobody to fund anything I do and have zero limitations when its comes to anything I want to do. Stop projecting your own failures onto others instead of coming up with a legitimate argument. You shouldnt be buying luxury electronics if you still need welfare.

    3. @mike sixx You shouldn’t try to control other people. It will only annoy them and frustrate you. Concentrate on your own good decisions and you should be fine. No worries!

    1. @I hate CCP,天安门大屠杀1989年6月4日,共匪,五毛,光復香港,時代革命 Yes they are propaganda.

    2. @Mark Jones No, they’ll just downsize and outsource to make up for their increased labor costs. Then, instead of trying to live on $7.25/hr (nobody other than teenagers actually makes that) they can try to live on $0/hr. What a great deal!

  2. Minimum wage for minimum work is reasonable. Education = higher requirements which leads to higher pay. Just a bunch of soft skulls with unscrupulous tendencies.

    1. @Margaret Nicol You accidentally got the second half of your comment right, that is what people should do, not have the government define what someone’s labor is worth.

    2. @Robert Cheek If the employer won’t do it then someone has to. Employees need to live. No-one is being greedy – they just want to be able to pay their rent, buy food without worrying about it and live a little. It’s not like they are asking for $50/hr.

    3. @username unknown Did I say anything about being paid the same. I’m talking about people’s worth not their price. No lower paid mean no high exec pay. However, no high exec pay makes no difference to lower paid workers. They’re the ones that keep the company successful or not.

    4. @Margaret Nicol You just don’t get it, make the minimum wage $15, rent, food, and ‘livin a little’ just get more expensive because the places you purchased those things labor cost just doubled. It’s not a difficult concept, surely you know some sort of small business owner, ask them what it would mean to their business if labor costs doubled.

    5. @Robert Cheek No – you don’t get it – unless you just feel that people should work a 40 hour week for nothing. People get paid more – they spend more. That goes back into the economy. The economy collapses when people have no money to spend.

  3. The republicans are showing they want to fight on something like fair pay something a majority of their voters vote yes on let them try

  4. We need the Democrats to be relentless in passing legislation that the people want. The sad truth is, until they prove it, I see them as having zero backbone. If the Republicans want to stonewall you, do what needs to be done to get these things done. The unity with he people not the hacks in congress will matter. Especially in future elections. So, just do it. For the people.

    1. Yeah that ain’t going to create unity with the people pal. Plenty of conservatives are already fed up with the amounts and types of legislation the liberals are pushing for. Brinksmanship is something liberals don’t have a clue about today

  5. But let’s have a “feelgood” story about how a 6 year old did some type of manual labor so that he could eat lunch at school.

    1. @Joe Smith What’s the point to quickly open schools if people are going to just increase infections and death…..we gotta control the virus first….WHY IS THIS CONCEPT SO HARD FOR PEOPLE TO GET!!!….CONTROL THE VIRUS SCHOOLS OPEN ITS SIMPLE…..but there’s still loonies that think the virus is fake and wont wear a mask….so schools wont open….America is shooting it’s self in the foot….

    2. @ejay D it’s not that people think the virus is fake (sure some ppl) rather they don’t trust the official narrative of govt and MSM. Even if the disease were 1000% more deadly, they’d push back against control measures on the basis that they come from the government, an entity they inherently distrust.

      Understand my comment and you will have cured your misunderstanding of many people.

    3. How many people have died of the flu this year? Probably none since Goofy Biden cured that along with cancer. Die from anything now and it’s due to the china plague.

    4. Man that’s my story! Raised by a single mother with two kids; cut grass in the summer pushing our lawn mower up and down the street and carried a shovel in winter looking for potential customers during both seasons. Bought school clothes with the money and was able to hangout with friends bowling, going to the movies, grabbing a bite to eat, what have you. Oh I was also on the free lunch program but like many of those coming after me; our government is doing all they can to get rid of that too!

  6. Employers react to increasing the minimum wage by cutting back quality, raising prices and laying off employees.

  7. The greed of the wealthy is destroying this country. B/c liberals & conservatives are at each other’s throats over abortion and gun control, nothing will ever get fixed & we will continue down this path while the rich get richer.

  8. The public doesn’t believe anything our Congress has to say nothing but lies. Right along with your media

  9. A lot of folks from my generation cant even afford to rent an apartment, let alone buy a home so $15 minimum wage really aint sh!t. If anything, the prices of everyday needs just needs to dip.

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