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  • A Survey of US Economists on a $15 Federal Minimum Wage:

    April 27, 2022

    Across the nation, lawmakers continue to grapple with the viability and impact of increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour. The debate continues to be heated and some cities have already enacted increases they believe will benefit workers. While the impact of these increases is becoming more clear, recent surveys of businesses, franchises and other groups confirm that such…

  • 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…

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    Preview: New Study Shows Raising Tipped Wages Causes Jobs, Earnings Decline

    June 24, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    The Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC)’s nonprofit One Fair Wage has ramped up activity pressuring restaurants and lawmakers across the country to stop using tip credits and instead push for a flat minimum wage for traditionally-tipped restaurant employees. Nationwide, the full-service restaurant industry has already been battered as states and cities have raised mandates for regular and tipped wages.…

    July 1 Will Bring Another Wave of Wage Hikes Across the Country

    June 17, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    While many states institute minimum wage increases in the beginning of the year, many introduce hikes mid-year too, many of them adjustments according to inflation. Looking ahead, November could also usher in several new state and local minimum wage mandates as ballot measures ask voters about higher wages. On July 1, twenty-two states, counties, and…

    Misleading NY Wage Study Omits Job Loss Consequences from Wage Hike Bill

    June 10, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    Rallies and events led by union-backed One Fair Wage, a subsidiary of the anti-tip credit advocacy group Restaurant Opportunities Center, have recently ramped up to try to convince lawmakers to end the tip credit in New York state. Even with proposals to raise tipped wages dramatically set forth by progressive lawmakers, New York’s governors have…

    Even Pushed Back, A $15 Wage in Michigan Will Slash Jobs, Earnings

    June 3, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    This week, organizers of the Raise the Wage MI proposal to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2027 and eliminate the tip credit failed to clear the signature requirement to move the ballot measure closer to voters in November. Instead, One Fair Wage, the nonprofit associated with the controversial Restaurant Opportunities Center, announced…

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