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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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    California Lawmakers: Leave the FAST Recovery Act in 2021

    January 14, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    Last year, union-backed state Rep. Lorena Gonzalez and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) attempted a regulatory takeover of the California fast food industry by a state appointed unelected council. Gonzalez’s legislation, entitled the “FAST Recovery Act,” pointed to a severely biased study authored by reliably left-wing University of California-Berkeley researchers entitled “The Fast-Food Industry…

    “Tips on Top” is an Empty Promise

    January 7, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    Rising minimum wages have seen a significant amount of spotlight entering the new year. But wage floors for tipped restaurant employees are also going up in 2022. This year, twenty states are raising their tipped minimum wages along with 56 localities. Notably, efforts backed by One Fair Wage, an affiliate nonprofit of the controversial Restaurant…

    Previewing the Minimum Wage Landscape for 2022

    December 30, 2021•MinimumWage.com

    An Overview of 2021 This past year marked a vigorous debate over minimum wages. At the federal level, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to a pending COVID relief bill that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour and eliminated the federal tip credit. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected such…

    California’s Cautionary Tale about the Minimum Wage

    December 17, 2021•MinimumWage.com

    California dreaming continues at the expense of the state’s own employees. As of January 1, California will be the first state to implement a $15 per hour minimum wage for most businesses (employers of 25 or fewer will reach $15 next year). The Golden State was one of the first states to embark on annual…

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