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We Are Drowning
Illinois Tipped Workers’ Crisis of Stagnating Wages, Decreasing Tips, and Skyrocketing Cost of Living Introduction “The minimum wage is...

Research Department
Mar 281 min read
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Small Business Restaurants Succeed With One Fair Wage: A Massachusetts & California Comparative Analysis
Small business restaurants in Massachusetts are struggling to find staff in what is currently the worst staffing crisis in the industry’s...

Research Department
Jan 161 min read
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Short Changed : Ending Income Taxes On Tips Will Not Make Subminimum Wages Livable
In the midst of a post-pandemic affordability crisis, the minimum wage in general and the subminimum wage for tipped workers in...

Research Department
Jul 23, 20241 min read
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RAISING THE BAR : A Worker, Employer and Consumer Guide to Implementation of Chicago’s New One Fair Wage Ordinance
Starting July 1 the minimum wage for tipped workers will be $11.02. Your employer should always ensure that tips bring you from $11.02 to...
Comms
Jun 18, 20241 min read
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The Subminimum Wage Crisis Is An LGBTQ Worker Crisis
Pride month is an important time each join for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community. June 13...

Research Department
Jun 13, 20241 min read
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One Fair Wage A Fork In The Road
2024 will be an important election year for the country and for New York State. However, numerous electoral analyses have raised alarms...
Comms
Jun 5, 20241 min read
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SMALL BUSINESS RESTAURANTS SUCCEED WITH ONE FAIR WAGE
Small business restaurants in Illinois are struggling to find staff in what is currently the most acute staffing crisis in the industry’s...
Comms
May 24, 20241 min read
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Rising Cost of Living and Jobs with Living Wages are Top Electoral Issues for Young Voters and Voters of Color in 2024
2024 promises to be a very tough election cycle. In order to win competitive races, Democrats will need to both fully consolidate and...
Comms
Apr 24, 20241 min read
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We Are Not On the Menu
Maryland Tipped Workers Report Pervasive Sexual Harassment, Gender Pay Inequity and Wage Theft The subminimum wage for tipped workers is...
Comms
Apr 22, 20241 min read
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One Fair Wage For Illinois Tipped Workers
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $8.40 an hour in the state of Illinois. While Chicago passed legislation to end the...
Comms
Apr 3, 20241 min read
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One Fair Wage For Massachusetts Tipped Workers
The sub-minimum wage for tipped workers is still just $6.75 an hour in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.1 While seven states including...
Comms
Mar 26, 20241 min read
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ALWAYS ESSENTIAL, STILL WAITING FOR CHANGE - New York
A legacy of slavery and a source of race and gender inequity, poverty, and harassment, the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been a...
Comms
Mar 18, 20241 min read
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New Survey: 94% of New York Restaurant Workers Support One Fair Wage, Ending Subminimum Wage for Tipped Earners
2024 promises to be a very tough election cycle. In order to win competitive races, Democrats will need to both fully consolidate and...
Comms
Feb 13, 20241 min read
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Polling Shows Consistent Support for Raising the Minimum Wage
2024 promises to be a very tough election cycle. In order to win competitive races, Democrats will need to both fully consolidate and...
Comms
Feb 2, 20241 min read
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Maryland Workers Demand One Fair Wage
Maryland workers won a major victory in 2023 — an increase in the minimum wage to $15 by 2025, joining the ranks of over a dozen states...
Comms
Feb 2, 20241 min read
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IMPACTS OF THE SUBMINIMUM WAGE FOR TIPPED WORKERS IN PUERTO RICO
As a partially self-governing commonwealth, Puerto Rico has a fraught colonial relationship with the United States, granted neither full...
Comms
Dec 14, 20231 min read
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The Sky Is Not Falling; The Floor Is Rising
This report marks the one-year anniversary of the passage of Initiative 82 (I-82) in Washington, DC. I-82 proposed raising the minimum...
Comms
Nov 15, 20231 min read
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Small Business Restaurants Succeed With One Fair Wage: A Connecticut & California Comparative Analysis
Small business restaurants in Connecticut are struggling to find staff in what is currently the worst staffing crisis in the industry’s...
Comms
Nov 13, 20231 min read
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The Last Major Metropolis
The Nation’s Largest Post-Pandemic Survey of Service Workers Reveals Challenges with New York’s Persistent Subminimum Wage for Tipped...
Comms
Oct 27, 20231 min read
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A Win-Win Solution for Chicago
On May 15, 2023, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed his first executive order as mayor of Chicago. The order focused on boosting youth...
Comms
Aug 8, 20231 min read
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