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Today, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) took out a full-page ad in Roll Call warning lawmakers on the consequences of eliminating the tip credit, as Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Raise the Wage Act would do. Tipped workers nationwide have actively opposed legislation to change the tipped minimum…

Last week, the Washington Post reported President Biden has selected former campaign advisor Gene Sperling to oversee the administration of the recently-passed stimulus package. Notably absent from the plan is a $15 federal minimum wage, since it was ruled not incidental to the budget, and failed to gain 60…

While the immediate fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 under reconciliation has subsided, activists are beginning to look toward a future standalone $15 federal wage bill. Proponents, including politicians, consistently claim that raising the minimum wage will have no costs, only benefits. President Biden repeatedly claimed…

Nowhere in the history of the Fair Labor Standards Act is there any inflation-adjusted precedent for a $15 minimum wage today. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported that this wage target would cost up to 2.7 million jobs. In a 2019…

Faced with a stinging defeat on minimum wage from the Senate Parliamentarian, Democrats are eager to find another avenue to kill jobs while deceptively screwing smaller businesses. The so-called “Plan B” from Sen. Wyden is described this way: My plan would impose a 5 percent penalty on a big corporations’…

On Thursday, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) ran a full-page ad in the Washington, DC edition of the Wall Street Journal, condemning President Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders’ $15 minimum wage hike as part of a coronavirus “relief” package. The ad was released ahead of Sanders’  Senate Budget Committee…

President Biden and Senate Democratic leadership continue to grapple over whether a standalone minimum wage bill can be passed as part of a budget resolution package for Covid relief. Proponents of the Raise the Wage Act, championed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, continue to press on, offering additional arguments to get…

This week, the Congressional Budget Office released a report detailing the impacts of enacting Democrats’ $15 minimum wage proposal. The report reveals the devastating impacts of enacting this wage hike: the CBO’s average estimate predicts the nation would lose 1.4 million jobs as a result, but losses could reach…

Fight for $15 advocates have recently turned to arguments that raising the minimum wage reduces reliance on means-tested welfare programs, and therefore reduces government spending. However, past minimum wage hikes demonstrate that there is no evidence to suggest this is true. Summarized in the…

Since the official introduction of the House’s Raise the Wage Act of 2021, there has been a flurry of activity surrounding the process to enact a federal $15 minimum wage mandate, and which lawmakers really endorse taking immediate action. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have voiced skepticism about…