Business owners said, oh, this is going to be terrible. It's going to hurt business. We're going to have to fire employees. The exact opposite happens. We phased it [minimum wage increase] in and we have a carve out for small businesses. So if you're a small business, we actually have a carve out for the provision and a longer term phase in. It's about $17. We would go to 20 over two years. (2:00:54–2:01:00)
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Asserts that the minimum wage increase was phased in with exceptions for small businesses.
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