back of the envelope calculation, in the case of someone like niya potts. that can't be made up by just increases in stability of employment and people not getting--leaving and having to be retrained. >> so i am dead serious when i say this is--the effects of minimum wage increases the employment. a part of it because the data is there. labor economists are excited because you have states raising minimum wage at different times at different levels so you can dig in and find out what the effects were. what we know the increases in the minimum wage that we have seen have not caused job loss. that's the evidence we have. so applyin applying that evideno what d.c. just did, our best guess is that her increased pay is not going to come at the expense of laid off colleagues. >> mark wilson, $8.25 to $11.50 is more than 30%. how would you answer that question? where is that money going to come from? >> as your opening clip pointed out it's not free. someone will have to pay for it. the restaurant owner in d.c. suggested it would be a $1 more increase in price for

> richard, could you make a case that people paying a quarter or a buck extra because it helps the niya potts of the world? >> is absolutely does. i think one of the things that the records show and the studies show is that increased minimum wage, in particularly at times like this when there has been so much wage stagnation, and so much pent up demand will lead to increased consumer confidence, increased consumer spending and that in turn translates to additional jobs as more successful economy for everyone. by the way, we can look back in history and see in 1968, for example, the minimum wage in real dollar terms or in fixed dollars terms would be $9.44 now. and the unemployment is less than half of what it is today. the notion that minimum wage destroys jobs is disproved. and when you think about it, the common sense that says people at the lower end of the income spectrum are going to spend the money that they make, that will create jobs and will be good for everyone. >> low wage workers as customers. that's where i want to come back. we'll take a short break with our guests and we'

. >> polémicas acusaciones conocida cono niya cotnar agentes de ice que trabajan dentro del centro dede su miedo creible al regresar a sus países . >> no los dejan salir, los oficiales de inmigración que muchos están desesperando y llegan al punto que quieren deportarse ellos . >> viola las ordenes del director de ice que dicen que ellos deben ser dejados en libertad cuándo prueben miedo de regresar a sus países . >> es una cosa desesperante . >> agente de inmigración y aduanas, ice ,califico de inexactas la acusaciones dicen que este mismo grupo antes pone acusaciones falsas para cuestionar sus procedimientos . >> vocera de ice diec que las acuasaciones no son tales, sin conocimiento del historial de cada detenido no tiene forma determinar la forma para apresarlos dice que ice usa criterio . >> dependiendo del os casos puede ser que puedan detener a alguien de la primera entrevista . >> lo que no esta en duda que ice detiene a miles diariamente en sus centros de detención . >> el congreso dice que inmigración debe detener 34 mil personas al año en centros de detenciones también sabem

. >> niya and her son live at her parents' house with her four brothers and sisters. having a playing field helps us you be able to buy more, helps the economy. >> she was part of 100 people who rallied outside of the washington, d.c. chamber council for a minimum wage. >> congress's failure to act and congress's failure to take care of those who have been left behind, not just from the recession but the people who want things to become better and better. we are becoming a hunt tree of haves and have nots. we need to be sure we have a living wage. >>> members of the council have one more round of voting before it goes through. president of the dc chamber of commerce insists the bill will hurt the local jobs market. >> for every 10% increase in the minimum wage, employment decreases by 1 to 3%. sot a small business person, that becomes a big deal. and it may be laying off a person to be able to afford to pay that. and that's not what you want people to do. >> this isn't the first time the nation's capitol has introduced living wage legislation. the controversial wal-ma