Vote yes on 77 or the lying restaurant lobby wins! With Ben Spielberg (free bonus)

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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On this breaking news-ish campaign free bonus ep, I talk to Ben Spielberg about the very important Initiative 77, which requires employers in Washington DC to pay their workers the full minimum wage PLUS TIPS. As of now, tipped workers don't get the minimum wage that non-tipped workers get.

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0:00.0	The Hi guys,
0:15.0	welcome to the Katie helper show.
0:18.0	Hi guys, welcome to the Katie helper show on WBA.
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0:32.1	And make sure you check out our live taping June 30th at 7 p.m.
0:36.1	at caveat we're going to have special guest Thomas Frank doing a special bonus
0:41.4	breaking newsish, breaking campaignish episode.
0:45.0	Really excited to be talking to Ben Spielberg, who I've been wanted to have on the show for a while.
0:49.0	Ben Spielberg is a former researcher and writer who has worked extensively on minimum wages and
0:53.9	he's going to talk to us about Initiative 77 which is an effort to raise the
0:58.4	minimum wage for tip workers in Washington DC as well as the deceptive plot from the restaurant industry to prevent
1:05.6	initiative 77 from passing.
1:08.5	So welcome and thanks so much for coming, Ben.
1:11.5	Thanks so much for having me, Kitty Kitty I'm really excited to be on.
1:14.0	Yeah, so tell us all what's happening because you got a vote that's happening Tuesday and we're Monday so this is really
1:22.0	suspenseful. It's's true well so early voting has been open in DC from June 4th to June 15th so I actually
1:29.4	have already voted in favor of initiative 77 and hopefully a lot of people in DC have two.
1:34.6	But election day is tomorrow and that's one of the things on the ballot and it's a pretty big
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