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  • AOC Returns to the Scene of the Minimum Wage Crime

    06/06/2019 5:24:20 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 30 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 6, 2019 | Larry Elder
    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., an advocate for a $15 minimum wage, returned to work as a bartender for one day. Ocasio-Cortez said: "All labor has dignity, and the way that we give labor dignity is by paying people the respect and the value that they are worth at minimum. We have to make one fair wage, and we have to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour, nothing less." The issue is simple: Does a government-mandated minimum wage help or hurt the very workers and job seekers that Ocasio-Cortez wants to help? Ask her former boss, who owned...