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One Fair Wage set out across the country this year to try to eliminate state and local tip credits in Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Rhode Island. The group’s only measure to survive the legislative and ballot initiative process was Question 5 in Massachusetts, which aims…

In February, U.S. House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer opened an investigation into the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)’s enforcement (or lack thereof) of non-profit tax laws against progressive activist groups, including anti-tip credit group One Fair Wage (OFW). Once the investigation went public, National Review reports One…

A report recently released by researchers at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE), a union-funded project housed at the University of California-Berkeley, echoes Governor Gavin Newsom’s media campaign that the recent $20 fast food minimum wage has not been a disaster. Yet Californians for months leading up…

This week, advocates for Governor Gavin Newsom’s $20 fast food minimum wage are coming out in droves – clawing at alternative data sources to prove Newsom is right and restaurant operators are wrong about the impacts of the wage law. The two studies that surfaced over the last two weeks,…

This week, the California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABIA) released its second ad in USA Today calling out Governor Newsom for his revisionist history on the success of California’s $20 fast food minimum wage hike. The Governor continues to cherry pick data, using whatever is politically advantageous to his…

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s spin room has been awfully quiet since new state jobs data dropped over the weekend. Last week, the governor published an op-ed claiming California’s fast food industry was in fact thriving – expressing no concerns about restaurant closures, layoffs, or price hikes following the April…

Last week, The Harris-Walz campaign officially added tip credit elimination to its platform last week, after weeks of pressure from activist organizations like One Fair Wage, which claim that doing so will end inequality and discrimination against women and minorities in the industry. This week, U.S. House Education…

A new study conducted by University of California-Irvine economists Dr. David Neumark and Emma Wohl examines how increasing the tipped minimum wage affects earnings gaps for restaurant workers. While anti-tip credit activists claim eliminating the current tip credit system would reduce inequities faced by women and minority workers, the study…

Many states saw proposals in the legislature or filed as ballot measures to raise wage floors and/or eliminate the tip credit this year. While many have failed due to employee and small business opposition, there are still several that have qualified to go before voters on November 5. Learn more…

Recently, the Democratic National Committee released its party platform that included raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour. Around the same time, Princeton economist Alan Blinder claimed a federal wage hike to $15 wouldn’t cost jobs, because “research has shown this isn’t the case.” EPI’s…