joining me now to further dig into that is dorian warren associate professor of professor -- at columbiaity and fellow at the roosevelt institute. scott ross of wisconsin now and kassim silver a burger king employee who took part in the strikes in new york city. kassim, i'll start with you. you've got kids? >> yes. >> you work full-time. how do you support a family on this? >> it's a super challenge. sincerely speaking, it's really impossible by yourself. three daughters, a wife. once i get past my metro card for the week, that's a necessity to commute. after that, i'm pretty much broke. bills, pampers. as far as enjoying the things like eating lunch maybe somewhere else every day, that's not in the budget. primarily i have to focus on commuting to work, to get the money that i use to space out whatever i can. it's a hard process. >> so, you know, i feel cassen like a lot of times when people hear about us talking about fast food workers striking, they're talking about teenagers with their summer jobs. what is it people need to know about the full-time father and husband working in these