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This week, the Chicago City Council’s Workforce Development Committee voted to advance a proposal that would eliminate the tip credit city wide. This policy has played out disastrously across the country, costing employees their jobs and tips, and even forcing restaurants to shut down. Michael Saltsman, executive director of the…

Last week, Wisconsin Sen. Chris Larson and Rep. Francesca Hong announced they would reintroduce a 2021 proposal to eliminate Wisconsin’s tip credit. This proposal would raise the tipped minimum wage more than 200 percent. But based on both Larson and Hong’s support for as high as a $15 minimum…

Recently, there has been an inundation of headlines claiming Americans have “tipping fatigue.” Activists have capitalized on this message saying American states and cities should get rid of tipping everywhere. But generalized messaging and misleading poll language have led many Americans to conflate tipping in non-service situations with tipping in…

Chicago’s tipped minimum wage has been on the rise for years, leaving declining restaurant employment growth in its aftermath. Yet in the last city council meeting, Chicago aldermen proposed legislation to scrap the Windy City’s tip credit completely. A similar move is already playing out poorly in the District…

Ahead of the first Republican presidential primary debate, organizers with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Fight for $15 are threatening to protest the venue. Yet the Fight for $15’s namesake policy to raise minimum wages has drawn bipartisan opposition and would cause significant job loss and earnings loss…

Denver’s recently-announced hike will put its minimum wage among some of the highest in the nation: the standard rate will reach $18.29 per hour in January, and the tipped minimum wage will be $15.27 per hour. As a result of recent historic inflation, Denver has departed from the state’s more…

Restaurant owners and their employees have warned that state and local attempts to eliminate tip credits will lead to negative consequences for their earnings and restaurants. Most recently, the District of Columbia took the plunge to begin eliminating its tip credit, despite warnings from concerned owners and employees. When voters…

Whether in support of local, state, or federal minimum wage hikes, you can count on progressive “researchers” to produce data reports overwhelmingly in favor. The integrity of these reports is less appealing than their conclusions. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Bobby Scott’s introduction of the Raise the Wage Act of…

While anti-tip credit activists with One Fair Wage touted past wins ahead of a push to eliminate Chicago’s tip credit, other formerly affiliated groups are throwing a flag on the play. One Fair Wage president Saru Jayaraman spoke at the progressive Netroots Nation conference where Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson brandished…

As minimum wage and anti-tip credit proposals sputter to a halt at the federal and state levels, Chicago appears to be one of the last remaining targets this year for tip credit elimination. One Fair Wage has announced a $25 million campaign to eliminate tip credits across the country, and…