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signatures and it will make california the state the highest minimum wage in the country. joining us to discuss this as the man behind the plan, a southern california born anti-poverty activist, entrepreneur and investor in start up such as the meal service blue apron. nice to have >> you here today. good to be with you. >> you file the living wage act of 2022 with the state attorney's office. what are you seeking to do with this? >> everyone who works full time should be able to live with full financial security. i think that is something people of all political beliefs can get around. in a california, there are millions of people working full time but living in poverty. during the pandemic, i think we also what some of those who have studied closely and that is the people we rely on most when they are vulnerable to bring us food when we are home during the pandemic are also the op who make the least.

it is long overdue that we raise the minimum wage. if the minimum wage had increased with the rate of productivity since 1960, it would be $24 right now. our quest to raise it to 18 is a compromise to make sure we can brroad coalition togeth in november will in particular because it is going to mean a raise of $24 a day for over 5 million californians. those 5 million californians are going to be the centerpiece of this coalition that is going to raise the wage. >> how would it work? it does not jump to 18 immediately. you are looking at doing this over years. can you explain how it is different for big businesses versus smaller businesses? wage will rise by a dollar a year for three years. for businesses that have over 25

employees, their minimum wage is going to be $15 next year. after this and should have passes, it will rise to 16, 17 and 18 in a subsequent years. for businesses who have fewer than 25 employees, their minimum wage is set to rise to $15 by 2023. it will rise by another dollar a year until it gets to 18. here's what is special about this initiative. it also encodes a law -- in law and automatic inflation increaser. every five or 10 years, we fight for a higher minimum wage. every year, inflation in votes the purchasing power of your dollar. working people are left on their heels fighting every five or 10 years to get back what they lost due to inflation. by encoding in the little them the men wage is going to rise with inflation, we are going to be able to level the playing field between workers who have

been on the road for 200 >> in the future, going up pegged to the cost-of-living. in terms of when the idea of them memo wage was introduced in the 1930's, how does it compare now? the federal minimum wage versus 1938. >> there are two important things to know about what fdr intended. he intended for it to be a living wage. he said no one who is working should be in poverty. the second thing he said is there is no true freedom without financial freedom. this is so essential to this moment when women's rights are under attack by the supreme court in d.c.. almost two out of three people earned minimum wage in california. when the gender wage gap as most

remissions is among low income women, the question of whether women can afford two or three meals a day for their family and can afford their rent. the surest way to push back against this assault on women's rights is to put more money in the pockets of working women. by raising the minimum wage to 18 bucks, we are going to raise the wages of low income women in the state. >> what do you say to business owners who say i can barely afford to stay afloat if i have to pay people more tiered i have to cut expenses elsewhere. maybe hire fewer people or he might go out of business. how do you respond to that? >> what almost all business people know is when your customers have more money to spend, your business consumer goods and services. we live in a consumer economy. in california, people who needed to buy things don't have any money. when we put more money in the pockets of people who need to

buy things, which specimen mom wage increases going to do, it is going to mean more money to spend at small businesses, which means small business as are able to grow faster. almost every small business person knows this. there is a tiny number of lobbyists who professed to represent small businesses but they really represent their own donors and the special interests they are trying to stand between workers and a living wage. people are going to be struck by how they're going to be a lot of business people in our coalition and a lot of small business people who are enthusiastic because they know it is going to mean customers are going to have money to spend at their businesses. >> you made your fortunes on wall street. you became an investor in startups. how did you become an antipoverty activist? >> this is a personal issue for me. my mom raised me by herself and we faced a lot of financial uncertainty when i was a kid. we lost our home to foreclosure

when i was a teenager. my mom worked as hard as a mom can work. in those early years, i saw firsthand of this idea that if you work hard and play by the rules, then everything plays out in america is a fantasy and that a reality. it is especially unreal for working moms. i have been fighting for economic dignity and financial security for almost a decade. i began by focus on getting california to create an armed income -- and earned income tax credit. it has put over $10 billion in the pockets of low-income californians. i've always said the earned income tax credit works best when execs with a -- when it exists with a healthy minimum wage. the fight to take the minimum wage to $18. >> i should point out california does have one of the highest statement among wage minimums.

like washington, massachusetts also really high. there are some states at seven dollars and $.75 to we have a higher cost of living in california. do you really see this as a ballot initiative? or you trying to get the governor and the legislature's attention to pass a bill? >> all i care about is that we raise the wage for 5 million workers by 24 bucks a day. if legislature and governor at and that action includes automatically increasing the minimum wage by inflation, great. if they not willing to act, we will take it to the ballot in and we will pass it. >> what else besides this you think is needed in california to support low-wage workers? >> first of all, we need to tax extremely wealthy californians who make hundreds of millions of dollars a year. >> like yourself? >> absolutely.

i should be paying more in taxes and so should many californians. the problem is not that people earning a couple hundred thousand dollars are not paying high enough taxes paid i think people earning a couple hundred thousand dollars should pay less in taxes. people are earning a couple tens of millions of dollars in a couple hundreds of millions of dollars and i some cases, couple billions of dollars who have almost a state level of wealth. they need to pay more in taxes so we can invest more in infrastructure so we can invest more in our schools so we can invest more in cash benefits for low income families. the reality is that when we invest more in low income people, the whole economy is better off. when you pay more in invest in families and low income people, the entire economy grows faster and you might have a smaller piece of

the pie but the pie gets a lot bigger. >> obviously this is going to need enough signatures to qualify for the november ballot. are you committing to funding the signature gathering process and any ads were getting the information out? >> this ballot initiative will either be passed into law by the legislature and the governor or it will be on the november 22 ballot. we will spend what is required to ensure one of those two outcomes occurs. >> i do want to ask you this. it had been reported you are considering a run for president in 2020. that did not happen of course. her name was thrown out during the california governor recall situation. is that potential and airy your fee -- potential in your future? >> i think my life starting from the sense of faith i have. i am a jew and i believe god creates us with a sense of meaning to help others.

the biggest problem i see around me is the problem i saw when i was growing up, which was as a kid, my mom faced terrible financial turmoil even though she worked full-time. almost eight out of 10 americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. the governing agenda of our nation should be to end poverty by ensuring everyone can afford life's basic needs. we have the ability to do it. we can afford to do it. what we have lacked is the political will. i will serve in anyway i can contribute to creating that political will. >> joe sandberg. entrepreneur, antipoverty activist by the living wage act of 2022. thing so much for your time. we will be right back. with the i team reporter who has a preview of

>> welcome back appeared abc 7 originals is debuting a new documentary, jfk unsolved, the real conspiracies. it is available wherever you stream. the film is based on a new book by a world renowned assassination researcher from marin county that comes to the conclusion president kennedy died in crossfire. let's take a look at the trailer. ♪ we know that. >> i thought those shots could have been coming from across the top of our head a. >> that is when i started to

run. >> something this big can happen and the government may not tell you the truth about it. >> it may be too late for justice. it is never too late for the truth. we need the truth. >> there were three loud reverberating explosions. suddenly the secret service men sprang into action. >> government sources now confirm president kennedy is dead. >> i team reporter dan noyes joins us to talk about the findings of the marin county researcher and author dan dan's documentary, which is so well researched and has so much new information. never before seen material. i am excited for it. >> it was a huge project. >> i know you worked on it for over a year. i was stunned. official government conclusion is that lee harvey oswald was the lone gunman who killed

resident kennedy. tell us about this local author who has reached a very different and very controversial conclusion. >> he is a fascinating guy. he is 86 years old. he lives in bolinas. the originl researchers enter the 1960's on the assassination. he worked for a life magazine and was in dallas at he questions all the people involved. the witnesses, the police. everybody who was there at the time. he has this breadth of knowledge that is amazing. he goes on to a long career as a private detective. he worked at huberty book on the assassination. that book is seen as one of the seminal books to this day on the assassination. he goes on to this a long career as a private detective. also the assassination is kind of nagging at him. it is on his mind over the decades. 10 years ago, he decides to take one last run at the assassination. he went back and took a new look at the forensic evidence.

he talked to a lot of the researchers, scientists involved throughout the years. people who have this personal passion for the assassination. they bring their life experiences to the issue. he decided to take another pass at it and come up with a new book based on this new information and a new perspective. this is his life's work i'm doing my best to give it justice. >> the crossfire conclusion.den? >> it is really a cascading amount of evidence, information that comes to that conclusion. it starts with the witnesses who were there. there were people on the overpass above the highway who were watching this, basically a panoramic view of the assassination as the cars came toward them. they hear the gunfire. 1, 2, 3. some people who report four or perhaps five shots. it is clear there were shots from the texas depository, which

was a hind the president's limousine at the time of the assassination. several people report seeing puffs of smoke and hearing gunfire to the left of -- as you are looking at that scene from the over ppass. there are people who smoke gunsmoke from the grassy noise area. people who heard what a mountain -- what amounted to different gunfire. some sounded like a 38 or perhaps a hunting rifle pit that is where the evidence started. there is much more that kind of cascades from there. i could go into all the signs as well. i'm sure we will at some point. thompson's book takes it piece by piece for hundreds of pages per i've done my best to go through the evidence but also to tell a compelling story for television. this is a fascinating tale from start to finish. >> he had been working on this for a long time.

how did you become interested in this as a documentary? >> when you're working stories around the bay area, you run into the same people. i have covered some of the high profile cases. there was a private detective who worked these cases for the defense. he told me about his father and his father's history. we would talk over the weeks and finally he said he is working on a new bug appeared i got in contact with his father. found out about his history and asked to see a manuscript of the book. when isil what it was, how compelling it was and the way the skies carries among -- the way the skies -- i thought we have got to do a documentary. he agreed to give us the exclusive rights to do a documentary. >> i know as part of this you went to dallas and the infamous plaza where the assassination happened. what was that like? >> you get there and it is

basically a triangle. there is a park. there is grass in the middle. there is the texas school of depository one of the most compelling things that you feel is a sense of honor and respect. people don't goof around there. they are quiet. they know what happened there and they really pay some respect for jfk's memory. i think it is not uncommon for people to report this. it seems so small. the area is so compressed. if you were to plan and assassination attempt, -- and i don't mean this in any funny way, this was really a good place to pull off and assassination. the car is coming right at the texas school of depository. you have the other angle from the grassy bell. you are 90 feet away from the president if -- as he comes right at you. it is so compressed.

it is amazing to me that more steps were not taken to protect the president that day. this would not happen today in terms of the lack of security. >> a lot has changed because of that. don't go away. we will take a short break and be right back with dan on his

>> we are back with the i team's dan noyes whose new documentary, jfk unsolved, the real conspiracies, is now streaming. really interesting as you look to the forensic evidence and followed the marin county author here and they draw the conclusion it was a crossfire, which begs the question, which i don't know if they can be answered, but who could have>> l question. thompson focuses on one key point. was this a professional hit or not? did oswald act on his own? could he have pulled this off? by a lot of measures, oswald was

kind of a mediocre gunman. he was a marksman in the marines. that is not a great rating. he was not great with his rifle. could he have done this? could he have planned this on his own? did he know the motorcade was going to be coming right at them on the sixth floor of the depository? that is the focus. was this a professional hit? was there a second gunman? thompson kits to the conclusion that there was a second gunman. there are many reasons why he believes that and they are laid out in the documentary. as to who that second gunman was, that is a another huge question we have to think about and research. >> went to americans tend to believe about this? >> over the years, the polls have not varied very much. americans believe this was the result of the conspiracy appeared the question was was it a conspiracy just to help oswald to plan what he was going to do

or was it a conspiracy to have a second gunman? over the years, the numbers have varied to 60% to 80%. american since 1963 have a leave of this was a conspiracy at i have to say this documentary gets to the same conclusion. is playing a in -- playing a role in maybe getting us closer to the truth? >> we use a lot of new technology in this documentary. drones are commonplace now. we received clearance from the faa to fly over the plaza, which is tough to get. you can see the angles. you can understand where people would be and that sort of thing to the other issue was there is a recording of the assassination. there was a microphone on a police officer's motorcycle stuck in the open position. experts decided there were at least five shots fired in that time.

i was able to speak to the scientist called by the house select committee in 1975 to study that recording. has been some controversy over the recording. he has taken a second look at it. he has brought on more stuff to look at this recording. he concludes it is an authentic recording. it identifies those five shots but in the last shot, there were two shots appeared the point is that oswald with his full action rifle that you have to write come he could not fired two shots within one shot so that points to a second gunman. >> we are out of time but what do you hope the viewers of the documentary will walk away with? >> i want people to understand your government does not always tell you your truth. -- tell you the truth. >> what are talking with you about the documentary purity can want jfk unsolved, the real conspiracies, streaming right now the abc 7 bay area platforms, abc 7.com, roku,

android tv and youtube purity can see it here saturday at 9:00 p.m. after the warriors game and on

>> thanks so much for joining us on this interactive show, getting answers. we talked about a push for an $18 minimum wage in california and we looked at dan noyes new documentary called jfk unsolved, the real conspiracies. it is streaming right now. we'll be here every weekday for you at 3:00 on air and on livestream answering your questions. world news tonight is coming up next and i will see you back here at 4:00.

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