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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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    Preview: A $15 Tipped Wage Could Cost MI Restaurant Workers $48 Million in Earnings, 21k Jobs

    March 8, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    After failing once in 2018, anti-worker labor activists at One Fair Wage are back trying to eliminate Michigan’s tip credit, despite far-reaching employment and income consequences for employees. The Restaurant Opportunities Center’s activist arm One Fair Wage is supporting another movement in Michigan to raise the state minimum wage from its current $9.87 per hour…

    New Study Demonstrates Inflationary Effects of Rising Minimum Wages on Rent

    March 4, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    As inflation soars higher than ever in the last forty years, consumers’ purchasing power is dropping steadily. But will proposed minimum wage hikes contribute to these inflated prices? When governments mandate steep minimum wage hikes, employers must alter their business model to account for the rising wage bill. In many cases, this requires businesses to…

    Disgraced Labor Group Returns to DC To Try to Eliminate Tip Credits One More Time

    February 25, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    After a ballot measure defeat in 2018, collapse of its no-tipping experiment, and a discrimination lawsuit – the Restaurant Opportunities Center and its advocacy nonprofit One Fair Wage (OFW) are back in Washington, D.C. to pass ballot measure Initiative 82, another attempt to eliminate the District’s tip credit. Specifically the measure would raise the tipped…

    Update: Minimum Wage Proposals Are Picking Up Across the Country

    February 18, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    A handful of states started off the New Year with ballot measure proposals to raise their minimum wages. As state legislatures have kicked into gear, even more proposals to raise state and local minimum wages have emerged. On top of those, this week One Fair Wage, a union-backed nonprofit that was started by the controversial…

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