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  • The Case for the Tip Credit: From Workers, Employers, and Research

    February 10, 2021

    The tipping system provides substantial earning opportunities for workers across many industries, especially restaurant servers and bartenders – well beyond the current minimum wage, and even beyond the proposed $15 minimum wage. Saving the tip credit is a worker-organized, bipartisan issue. Thousands of tipped workers across the country have pushed to save the tip credit, against the infringement of outside…

  • Tipped Workers, Minimum Wage Workers, and Poverty: Analyzing the Redistributive Impact of Eliminating Tip Credits

    February 10, 2021

    Key takeaway: According to a new study by economists from the University of California, Irvine, tipped workers are significantly less likely to be poor than are standard minimum wage earners. Tipped workers, many of whom are in the food and beverage service industry, have lower statutory minimum wages than other workers (under federal and most state laws). However, the lower…

  • The National Impact of a $15 Minimum Wage: Over 2 Million Jobs Lost

    January 26, 2021

    President Biden and recent legislation have proposed more than doubling the federal minimum wage to $15, and raising the separate federal tipped minimum wage by as much as 600 percent. Rather than providing relief from the pandemic, the best economic evidence shows this proposal would worsen its consequences. This analysis is based on a 2019 methodology developed by the nonpartisan…

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    Newsflash: Minimum Wage Hikes Can Contribute to Inflation

    November 19, 2021•MinimumWage.com

    As inflation has reached historical levels, lawmakers and analysts are grappling with the causes, including the shocks from the pandemic, both related to government-imposed restrictions and shifts in consumer demand. This week on Twitter, one New York Times writer said the recent media headlines concerned about inflation are just “rich people” blaming policies like the…

    Why do tipped restaurant employees support the current tip credit system?

    November 12, 2021•MinimumWage.com

    One Fair Wage, a nonprofit affiliate of the radical Restaurant Opportunities Center, has been on a mission to end the tip credit in states across the country. Over the last several weeks, One Fair Wage president Saru Jayaraman has been trying to export this movement to New York, Massachusetts, Maine, and the District of Columbia.…

    Biden DOL Nominee’s Study Finds Amazon’s Wage Hikes Caused Significant Job Loss

    November 4, 2021•MinimumWage.com

    A new study finds recent large minimum wage hikes from companies like Amazon, Walmart, Target, CVS, and Costco have had significant negative consequences for employees in geographical “commuting zones” surrounding these large employers. This conclusion comes from a rather surprising source: a set of generally pro-minimum wage hike advocates including UC-Berkeley’s Ellora Derenoncourt and David…

    Gov’s $15 Wage Order Could Raise PA’s Pandemic Job Loss Toll by 45%

    October 28, 2021•MinimumWage.com

    Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has repeatedly called to raise the state’s minimum wage – every year for the last seven years. Yet bills proposing minimum wage increases have continually failed in the state legislature. The most recent bill, which would have raised the state’s minimum from the current federal hourly rate of $7.25 per hour…

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