Videos

Viewers responded to the House vote to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.

Representative Dan Meuser (R-PA) offered a motion to add language to the minimum wage bill that would exempt certain small businesses from the increase.

Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN) talked about the House vote to raise the federal minimum wage and the debate over government spending.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) held a press event prior to the House vote on H.R. 582, the Raise the Wage Act, to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2025.

Economic Policy Institute’s Heidi Shierholz and Mercatus Center’s Michael Farren talked about the pros and cons of raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. This program was part of C-SPAN’s…

Executives from IBM, JP Morgan and Wal-Mart were among the speakers at an American Enterprise Institute-hosted discussion on worker wages and benefits. They talked about ways large…

Michael Farren talked about the debate over raising the minimum wage and his belief that increasing it could have unintended consequences for workers.

Ben Zipperer talked about minimum wage laws. Topics included minimum wage increases passed by cites and reaction from some state legislatures to those increases, and studies on the effects of the…

David Cooper and Veronique de Rugy debated issues related to raising the minimum wage.

David Rolf talked about his book The Fight for Fifteen: The Right Wage for a Working America, in which he looks at the movement to increase wages for workers. Mr. Wolf talked about the…

Don Watkins talked about his book Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality, in which he discusses income inequality and argues that a minimum wage is harmful to the…

The “Fight for $15” movement held its first ever nationwide convention in Richmond, Virginia where workers from various industries called for the raising of the minimum wage to $15 an hour…

Telephone lines were open for viewer responses to the question, "Should the federal minimum wage be raised?" The Wall Street Journal's Melanie Trottman spoke by phone about Republican…

In his weekly address, President Obama recognized all mothers in celebration of the upcoming Mother’s Day, and gave thanks to his wife and mother-in-law for their role in raising his daughters.…

Sabrina Schaeffer talked about the Independent Women’s Forum’s policy proposals in their recent report, Working for Women: A Modern Agenda for Improving Women’s Lives, such as on paid…

David Cooper and James Sherk talked about how increases in the minimum wage at state and local levels would affect local economies and businesses and the effect on workers' standards of…

News headlines were read and phone lines were open for viewer calls on the question: “Should the minimum wage be raised to $15 an hour?”

News headlines were read and phone lines were open for viewer calls on the question: “Should the minimum wage be raised to $15 an hour?”

James Sherk and Kendall Fells talked about efforts by some activists for a $15-per-hour federal minimum wage, possible implications of a wage hike, and the likelihood of congressional…

News headlines were read and phone lines were open for viewer calls on the question: “What should the minimum wage be?”