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Soil which makes it you guessed it another commodity caught up in the bitter u.s. china trade war. the rich soil of marathon county in the u.s. state of wisconsin is perfect for growing the medicinal plant gin saying china has been a lucrative market for american gin saying but jin singh is one of the agricultural products subjected to tariffs in the ongoing trade war between washington and beijing the result a 20 percent drop in sales to china farmers fear for their livelihoods they can't react quickly to market changes because ginseng takes up to 5 years to grow and harvest a particular perc...

Market changes. >> reporter: despite high wages, 111 new restaurants opened in seattle since may according to the seattle times. a proponent says restauranted unlimited is making pay a scapegoat. >> they made some bad business decisions. there were a couple of openings that didn't go well. they're closing them in other places where there's a lower minimum wage. >> reporter: nearly every democratic presidential hopeful supports the $15 federal minimum, more than double the current $7.25 which is still in effect in 21 states. >> long past time. it should be $15 ap hour across the united states o...

In a vote mostly along party lines, democrats in the house made good on a promise and passed a $15 federal minimum wage. it would be the first hike in a decade. but republicans who control the senate are unlikely to even bring it up. their argument, job losses. a point strengthened by the bankruptcy filing last week by restaurants unlimited. 35 upscale restaurants, mainly along the west coast. in its declaration, the company partially blamed high minimum wage laws which raised its labor cost $10.6 million over the last three years. it cited three examples where minimum wages have climbed drama...

$10.6 million. some examples given portland, san francisco, seattle where over the last three years, worker's pay has climbed 35%, 41% and 69% respectively. >> the cost of doing business has gone up and it's really hard to adjust your prices in a restaurant at the speed that the market changes. >> nearly every democrat running for in 2020 supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour in the bill to do that will be voted on in the house thursday. the nonpartisan congressional budget office just released its report on more than doubling the federal wage floor, 17 million workers would...

Not see them doing particularly well in 2020. >> julie: speaking of backfiring, steve mnuchin made a series of phone calls as you probably know to american bankers, to the top american bankers. and i ask you, could that backfire? some would argue that perhaps it is a mistake for the government to intervene and reach out to private banks. >> certainly we have an obligation. i mean, we have been through this historically we have the government interfering, and we need to understand what our role is when we have economic changes and when the market changes. we need to understand that the governme...