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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…

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…