put many reachers argue that the length between minimum age is overblown. >> few are paid the minimum wage, onward about 3% of the workforce. most who are are young. over a quarter of minimum wage earners are high school or college students. >> washington with the highest, known for strong union activities tops the list the $9.20. oregon at $8.95, where one in five households rely on food stamps. vermont with the third highest, recalculates the wage every year taking inflation into act. at $8.25, connecticut has the fourth highest minimum wage. it has the fourth-highest cost of groceries and is one of the expensive. >> illinois $8.25. the strong union state has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. how much of an impact does a higher minimum wage have on the economy. in oregon, a planned $0.15 increase in minimum wage on 1 january 2014 puts $2,034 in the pot. >> i don't see a way in which that small amount of money for a small proportion of the workforce could spark economic growth. the funds are coming from someone else who no longer has the money to spend. >> the maj

said in a skype interview from the ship that even though they are at a frozen standstill, the 74 reachers crew say they are doing fine. moral is high. >> it sounds worse than it is. everyone else, i'll reassure you is comfortable below decks, where they are having a cup of tea or coffee. >> we have enough food and water. we have plenty of fuel on board. we have shy of two weeks worth of fresh food. >> if the ice breaker is unsuccessful the next text will involve using an ice breaker. >> the thick ice is a common hazard for ships travelling through the area where ships can travel at slow speeds. >> more than 1.1 million have signed up for health insurance using healthcare.gov. more than 975,000 enrolled in december alone. the figures come after glitches compromised the roll out. it is short of the 3.3 million enrollees predicted by january the 1st. >> flu season is here. they are seeing a lot of cases. the virus is widespread. al jazeera's brandon chutly has more on the outbreak. >> doctors are seeing more patients than usual with flu symptoms. >> we are seeing an uptake in patient volumes

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american law, every nickel because the law says we cannot pass any money, which would in any way reacher benefit a terrorist. in this case, about 6% of it does. when palestinian authorities have been confronted with the prospect that they will be forced or pressured to stop funding this program, they say our prisoners are too precious. we will never stop. they have a term for it. i think the translation is something different in arabic. it means that any donor who gives any money and want to use for peaceful purposes, that money is considered tainted and felt the because the greatest priority for this money, according to the words i have cited is to benefit and compensate the terrorists for specific acts of terrorism. your first question is how come you're here about this for the first time? your second question is why hasn't your congressmen heard about this before this videocast? and your third question is, how come i didn't read about this in the paper yesterday? actually, it has been in the times of israel a couple of times. it has been in "the new york times" a couple of years ago a

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independent force and i think that we are interested in to have stronger predictor of all country reacher men. >> yes, you were nodding. and i agree obviously with what the truth is and what you are talking about in realizing that this is definitely the veto any to remind the audience to push this aside a lot of of further is that there is a change in relationship with israel, which also means that russia, like the united states has to balance of salts and the balance towards this is part of the quote world, russia was seen in a position to a variety of reasons. but things have been a part of this and a simplistic view of the amal us imola this and this has to do with soviet jews and not just the whole of the former soviet republics and manifested in this and there was a russian speaker among many others that they. name: nonetheless, aim message of this number of people that have been in there for a period of time as he would come in israeli society and they become part of the fabric that vladimir putin himself has talked about and talked about our jews and he has never heard a soviet lea