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Beto O'Rourke: “The national minimum wage for food service workers is in the…”

Featuring: Beto O'Rourke, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 1:13:40

And first of all, thank you for coming out here to Abilene, Texas this afternoon. Appreciate it. Absolutely. Yeah. My question has to do with labor, labor rates, minimum wage. Currently, minimum wage is 725 an hour. The national minimum wage for food service workers is in the low $2 range. My question is, one of the issues with minimum wage is that it doesn't have an automatic increase factor into it. (1:13:40–1:13:45)

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