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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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    Too Good to be True: Economists Confirm Minimum Wages Hikes Cause Significant Employment Loss

    May 20, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    Despite the bulk of economic evidence pointing to significant job losses as the result of minimum wage hikes, lawmakers in favor of raising minimum wages to $15 per hour and beyond have clung to one study in particular claiming minimum wage hikes don’t negatively affect employment. Now, economists reevaluating that study say their evidence yet…

    Democrats’ Productivity Argument for Raising Minimum Wage Mandates Just Got A Reality Check

    May 13, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    Surrounded by a multitude of evidence that raising the federal minimum wage to $15 is an irresponsible, job-killing idea, some politicians seem to hold onto any argument they can find in favor of dramatic wage increases. One such idea is the federal minimum wage should be tied to labor productivity rates. Prominent Democrats including Sen.…

    Other states shouldn’t follow Hawaii’s $18 example

    May 6, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    As state legislative sessions wrap up and ballot measures are shaping up for the fall, it’s becoming increasingly clear that a $15 per hour wage target is old news for unions and activists. Now, states are moving toward more extreme wage hikes: Hawaii’s legislature just approved an $18 per hour state minimum wage. California voters…

    Survey: Majority of Economists Believe $15 Wage is Too High

    April 29, 2022•MinimumWage.com

    A new survey by Carnegie Mellon University professor Lloyd Corder for the Employment Policies Institute found a significant majority of responding economists oppose raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. In fact, a plurality (43%) agreed the wage should be the current federal rate of $7.25 per hour or lower. In February 2022,…

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