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So there's something that's very interesting in a time of extreme alienation in US society

and intense division that people feel depending on whether they are a Republican or a Democrat.

But there's a new USA today survey that finds that Americans have some things that they

very much feeling common whether they're Republicans, Democrats or Independents.

And this survey data is very interesting in terms of what people are feeling about the

economy and the direction we're going.

And one thing that is clear and was run away in the survey data is that Republicans

Democrats and Independents overwhelmingly support raising the federal minimum wage.

And the numbers are extreme for any survey today with the polarization that there would

be similarity and how people responded to the question.

And that three quarters of Americans support raising the minimum wage, which is a significant

increase even from just a year ago.

So this data has been going steadily up as the federal minimum wage has stayed where

it's been for a long, long time, $7.25 an hour.

And I remember probably five, six years ago when that labor political movement started

for a $15 an hour minimum wage, I was like, wow, see if I'm going to support that.

And it's been something that I've been pretty much tone deaf on is how people feel about

making sure that the minimum wage does what it was originally intended, which is to allow

somebody to earn enough to pay for life's basics, which obviously you can't do on $7.25

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