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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…

For decades, economists have found minimum wage hikes have cost jobs and livelihoods. Many studies also find these mandates are poorly targeted to lift people out of poverty. Now a new study shows local minimum wage increases may also increase homelessness. Dr. Seth Hill of University of California-San Diego compares…

While District of Columbia residents celebrate the Independence Day holiday weekend, the city’s restaurants will be quietly saddled with yet another minimum wage hike. On July 1, D.C. will raise the tipped minimum wage again up to $8 per hour, after a previous increase to $6 per hour…

Lawmakers in Harrisburg are proposing drastic changes to the state minimum wage. One such proposal, HB 1500, would raise the regular minimum wage up to $15.00 per hour, while also raising the tipped minimum wage to $9.00 per hour, a more-than 200 percent increase. A large majority of economic research…

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has been attacking restaurants for years in efforts to gain a foothold for organizing the industry. In its latest attempt, the SEIU filed a public comment brief with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) citing all of its reasons current franchising agreements are “harmful.”…

As more states and cities institute wage hikes and inflation adjustments, July 1 is becoming more and more prominent as a wage increase deadline every year. This year, 24 states and cities will see minimum wage hikes effective July 1, many of them due to inflation adjustments. This comes as…

In a press conference outside the U.S. capitol earlier in May, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) announced he would introduce a new bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $17 per hour. In a recent op-ed in The Guardian, Sanders suggested a $17 per hour minimum wage was “the right…