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Living Room – Healthcare mobs; minimum wage change; career waitressing.


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Buckets of misinformation  and disinformation about Obamacare are fueling mob-like rage across the land: what will be the result?  The federal minimum wage just increased—to $7.25 an hour.  And this is the good news!  PLUS: a new book about career waitresses finds these women are proud professionals.  With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

guests: Ellen Shaffer, co-dir. Center for Policy Analysis

          Holly Sklar, author "Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us"; dir. Business for a Fair Minimum Wage Project

          Candacy Taylor, award-winning photographer; author "Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress"

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