Brian Laird on W.N.C. and now we turn to New Jersey with our Nancy Solomon who hosted last night's

addition of the Ask Governor Murphy Callin show here on WNYC as she does each month and we started having Nancy on with us on the mornings

after. We'll play some clips of the Gov and touch on at least these issues that

came up last night. The good news for many people that the minimum wage will finally hit

$15 after years of slowly raising it even to that pretty low level. The bad news for some Jersey drivers is that they could get hit with New York City's coming congestion pricing fee, so New Jersey is now suing.

And Phil Murphy's wife Tammy Murphy is running for the US Senate and some critics are crying nepotism

Joining us now to break down all that and more is Nancy Solomon, WNY reporter and editor and host of the Ask Governor Murphy monthly

call and show.

Hey Nancy, welcome back to the show.

Oh, thanks for having me.

So let's start with the minimum wage, which will go up to $15. Thanks for

Governor Murphy. It's been slowly phasing in the new year, which was a big goal for Governor Murphy.

It's been slowly phasing in over the years, as I said,

because a lot of people particularly small business

owners thought it would put a strain on their finances let's take a listen to how the

governor sees that issue and the progress toward it and his speaking to you last night.

We've had 60,000 new small businesses open over the past couple of years.

We're at an all-time high it shows that one these are not separate one feeds into the other if you pay me more money I've got more money to you know consume to go out to dinner maybe put toward a

kids education etc I think the debate upon reflection given what people get paid these days is almost quaint frankly and I wonder

whether or not we shouldn't be taking this higher that's something I'd be very open to.

So Nancy talk about a about a little about the process of getting that minimum wage up to even $15 and

sounds like the governor was proposing it should go higher.

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