derek: we now have a couple of questions submitted by voters. the first is from cassandra peterson from youngstown. she asks, where do you stand on raising the minimum wage and/or since you had the last question, we start with senator portman. mr. strickland: i support -- mr. portman: i support raising the minimum wage and what we do in ohio. we have a slightly higher than the national average. the support in late, we put it on the indexed to inflation. it goes up every year. right now we have a situation where democrats are in control as with barack obama, 60 votes in the senate, majority in the house, they did nothing on the minimum wage. from a public and get control, -- when republicans get control, they use it as a battering ram. high increases in the way to create significant job loss. -- 30,000 -- minimum jobs could be lost in ohio, 7000 nationally. i am for raising in the minimum wage, but somehow creating more opportunities. most of them are young people. they are young people under the age of 24. they are people trying to get their start in life with the first job. to say