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Listening to America

#1204 Minimum Wage

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Listening to America

Society & Culture, History

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Clay S. Jenkinson asked listeners to write in with their thoughts and personal experiences about living on minimum wages. During this show, he shares and discusses the responses received.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good day citizens and welcome to this special podcast intro to this week's Thomas Jefferson

0:05.6

Hour which is about how do we title this claim?

0:11.3

A response to income equality.

0:14.0

And there was one letter that we didn't get to, a couple actually that we didn't get to in the show that I feel badly about.

0:20.0

David Emory.

0:21.0

Yeah, and he goes through a lot in his letter.

0:25.1

I will just go to the tail end of it.

0:27.0

He says that ends my question.

0:28.2

But since I've written what sounds like a complaint,

0:32.0

I feel obligated to at least say that I haven't given up on

0:35.2

making things better in my small corner of the world. Good for you, sir. I don't

0:41.5

know how or if there are solutions to the great problems that face our nation,

0:48.0

but I do know I can make a difference in my city and neighborhood.

0:52.0

Thank you for reading my message and for making the Thomas Jefferson

0:56.4

hour every week. I look forward to being able to support this valuable educational program

1:00.3

in a future, in the future future once I make a living wage.

1:04.0

You know, I have enough to share with you, you knuckleheads.

1:08.0

Your letter is a great plenty, sir.

1:10.0

I love that.

1:11.0

There's a, oh, a favorite singer of mine with the band, Rick Danko who made this quote

1:16.8

about, you know, when you're young you're going to change the world and as you grow old do you realize the greatest thing you can do is clean up your own neighborhood.

1:26.0

So there's a little bit of that in there.

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