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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...

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...

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...

The Subminimum Wage CrisisIs 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...

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...

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...
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...


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...

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...

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...

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...

ALWAYS ESSENTIAL, STILL WAITING FOR CHANGE
A legacy of slavery and a source of race and gender inequity, poverty, and harassment, the subminimum wage for tipped workers has been a...
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...
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...

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...

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...


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...

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...

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...
Cook County IL Factsheet
THE SUBMINIMUM WAGE for tipped workers is $8.00 an hour in the state of Illinois, compared to the state’s full hourly minimum wage of...

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...

END THE SUBMINIMUM WAGE FOR TIPPED WORKERS in New York. Support bill A10710/S5567.
New York restaurant workers and owners are struggling. Ending the subminimum wage for tipped workers will provide a level playing field...
California Needs A Living Wage For All – Factsheet
The California Living Wage for All Coalition is a formation of worker and criminal justice organizations seeking to advance policy that...

The Washington, DC Consumers’ Guide to I-82 And Service Charges
With the passage of Initiative 82, Washington D.C. has made a historic move away from a business model built on the legacy of slavery,...

The National Restaurant Association’s Leading Role in Weakening Child Labor Laws
The National Restaurant Association was founded in 1919 with the express purpose of suppressing food workers’ wages, both in the...

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

Small Business Restaurants Succeed With One Fair Wage: A California & New York Comparative Analysis
Small business restaurants in New York are struggling to find staff in what is currently the worst staffing crisis in the industry’s...

Stop Leaving Us Out: 73 Years of New York State Minimum Wage Increases Excluding Women – Especially Women of Color.
The movement to increase the New York State minimum wage has made great gains for some workers. However, tipped restaurant workers, who...

The National Restaurant Association’s Donations to Members of the 118th United States Congress
The National Restaurant Association was founded in 1919, approximately 50 years after Emancipation, with the express intent of...

Ending Legacy of Slavery and Addressing Maryland’s Restaurant Staffing Crisis
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $3.63 an hour in the state of Maryland. While the state minimum wage increased to...

OFW Making History: Winning One Fair Wage in Washington D.C.
With Initiative 82 being on the ballot this midterm in Washington DC, this report outlines the benefits of implementing One Fair Wage. It...

THE KEY TO SAVING THE NEW YORK STATE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY POST-COVID 19
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is 66 percent of the overall minimum wage and ranges from $8.35-10.40 an hour in the state of New...

The Key to Saving the Maryland Restaurant Industry Post-COVID 19
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $3.63 an hour in the state of Maryland. A direct legacy of slavery, the subminimum...

Dine Back Better Portland
The National Restaurant Association was founded in 1919 to suppress workers’ wages and maintain the subminimum wage for tipped workers,...

Intentional Inequality Illinois
September 21, 2022 is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. This date represents the approximate time a Black woman must work into the new year to...
THE KEY TO SAVING THE CONNECTICUT RESTAURANT INDUSTRY POST-COVID 19
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $6.38 an hour in the state of Connecticut. A direct legacy of slavery, the...

Intentional Inequality
September 21, 2022 is Black Women's Equal Pay Day. This date represents the approximate time a Black woman must work into the new year to...


No Pride in Subminimum Wages
The Harsh Realities of Being an LGBTQ Restaurant Worker The subminimum wage has plagued the restaurant industry for decades, causing...

Dine Back Better
AS THEY EMERGE FROM THE PANDEMIC, hundreds of restaurants across New York are responding to the Great Resignation by raising wages,...


Raising Wages to Reopen
New York State Restaurants Raising Wages to Save Their Businesses After COVID-19 The New York State restaurant industry has been ravaged...


Are You Being Served?
How Applebee’s NYC Establishments Are Responding to the Great Resignation With Racial Inequity One Fair Wage UC Berkeley Food Labor...


UNLIVABLE
Increased Sexual Harassment and Wage Theft Continue to Drive Women, Women of Color, and Single Mothers Out of the Service Sector Prior to...


The Great Black Restaurant Worker Exodus
The restaurant industry has been in chaos since the onset of the pandemic. Numerous studies have documented how chronic low wages, sexual...


We Need Relief AND Raises
The restaurant industry has been one of the largest and fastest-growing sectors of the United States economy for decades. Restaurant...
One Fair Wage: The Key To Saving The Washington, D.C. Restaurant Industry Post-COVID 19
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $5.05 an hour in Washington, D.C., the nation’s capital. A direct legacy of slavery,...

One Fair Wage: The Key To Saving The New York State Restaurant Industry Post-COVID 19
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is 66 percent of the overall minimum wage and ranges from $8.35-$10.40 an hour in the state of New...
One Fair Wage: The Key To Saving The Illinois Restaurant Industry Post-COVID 19
The subminimum wage for tipped workers is still just $6.60 an hour in the state of Illinois. A direct legacy of slavery, the subminimum...
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