From the K-P-F-K Studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting great to long. Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host

David Feldman. Hello David. Happy New Year. And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.

Happy New Year to you, Ralph.

Same to you.

We have no guests on this week's show.

We're going old school.

The three of us are going to do sort of a bit of a year-end review, a progress report, if you will.

We'll also answer some listener questions and check in with Russell Mokieber, our corporate crime

reporter.

So without any further ado, let's get right to it, David.

Ralph, when we first started this show, you talked about raising the minimum wage.

What is the progress? How did we do in 2015 with the minimum wage?

Well, there's been quite a bit of progress largely due to a few advocacy groups and a few thousand workers from McDonald's and Walmart and Burger King picketing and demonstrating in front of their

place of employment. What's happened is a remarkable surge of public opinion in favor of

minimum wage. It comes in and poll after poll between 70, 75,

sometimes 80% of the people, which means it's a left right situation, a lot of conservative workers in Walmart want to earn at least

as much as Walmart workers earned in 1968 adjusted for inflation.

listeners may say what yeah 30 million workers in this country are making less than workers made in 1968 adjusted for inflation, even though worker productivity has doubled and the largest

number of these workers do not work for small business, they work for the big box

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