This week on Ring of Fire, Justin Schweitzer, Policy Analyst at the Poverty to Prosperity Program for The Center for American Progress joins us to discuss the reasons why we should eliminate the tipped minimum wage in favor of the regular raised minimum wage.

and Heather Digby Parton will help run down the biggest stories of the week.

Hey more than ever, a reason for you to become a member starting this week and you can do so over it rofpodcast.com, today the member show has a bonus interview, Sam will be talking to Harvard constitutional law professor Lawrence Lessig about HR 1, it is what he calls an incredibly important piece of legislation to save not just voting rights and anti-corruption policies but literally to save our democracy.