Today in Ann Arbor, Michigan, President Obama is asking for a raise.

In the next two years, he wants the federal minimum wage to rise from $7.25 an hour to $10.10, saying that a higher minimum wage nationally will help families.

California already has already started increasing its minimum wage — it will be $10 an hour in 2016 — but we wanted to know how a wage increase would help families here in L.A.

For more, we're joined by Kokayi Kwajitahidi, director of the child care campaign at LAANE, an organization focused on economic empowerment in South LA.