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Recalling his lean years after law school as a homeless business entrepreneur before he made millions by getting in on the ground floor of the cellular phone industry, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., likes to say that he was a worker in the “gig” economy “before it was cool to be gig.”

So it made sense that the two-term senator and former governor would feel right at home Wednesday at the headquarters of Snagajob — the western Henrico County -based national leader in hourly work staffing.

But Warner, on a tour through the state while Congress is on summer recess, did not simply snag, or pay, compliments in his time at the online workplace innovator.

Instead, he relaunched some ideas on what he thinks needs to be done to protect American workers in a changing global economy, and, in somewhat critical terms, said American business needs to change its approach.

“I’m not running for anything at this point so I can tell you the absolute truth,” he told the receptive audience in an employee town hall Wednesday morning.