The New York Democrat — and former bartender — waited tables Friday afternoon to raise awareness for Democrats’ fight to increase the national minimum wage to $15 an hour.
“I’ve always got my backup job,” she joked to patrons while ringing up pizza orders and mixing cocktails at the restaurant in New York’s borough of Queens. “I’ve still got it!”
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Ocasio-Cortez is a cosponsor of the Raise the Wage Act , which would bump the federal minimum hourly wage to $15 for all workers — up from the current $7.25 hourly rate, which hasn’t been raised since 2009.
Source: Ocasio-Cortez waits tables to promote increasing the minimum wage
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