michael badd boden will joi. >>> california is phasing in a minimum wage hike to $15 an hour.ts say big companies should be able to absorb the extra costs, some small businesses will not and the workers who are now celebrating a pay raise might soon be out of a job. will carr joins us live from fresno with more on that. will. >> reporter: business isn't exactly booming here in fresno. the unemployment rate is 10.6%. with that in mind, some local leaders say that a $15 minimum wage could be devastating for small businesses. the food inside this bar and grille inside downtown fresno isn't expensive or conapplicantconapplicanmplicate. but since california raised its minimum wage in january, the owner has been forced to raise prices, lay off a cook, replace him with three cheaper and faster waffle machines. >> every time i have to let somebody go i'm letting go away, taking away paying $10 an hour to replace his job with $300 machine. >> this is about economic justice. >> reporter: now trying to swallow the $15 minimum wage that will phase in by 2022 a hike the chamber of commerce

ey both graduated from boden college. the other connection is plfment trucken miller has helped raise the money and jeffery has provided the zeal, inspiration and leadership to make it the success that it has become. so with that, let me turn -- and remember the note cards. don't forget the note cards. i want to turn to stan who has a presentation to sort of outline the issues about the future of young people in america. welcome. [applause] >> dean brady mentioned that jeff and i were at college together in the early 70s. as children of the 60s, we used to think about protests and changing the world. but even back then, i had never been here but berkeley, california, was always the larger than life institution where movements started. [applause] it is interesting. i hear a lot today about how millenials don't think the way children of the 60s thought. and they're not into movements and they're not into protests. but i look at a couple of examples and i couldn't disagree more. when i think about how much this generation mo