💬 Opinion 8h ago · C. Jarrett Dieterle

Some Progressives Tried To Abolish the Tipped Minimum Wage. Now They're Backtracking.

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Some Progressives Tried To Abolish the Tipped Minimum Wage. Now They're Backtracking.
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In recent years, one of the predominant policy initiatives of the progressive left has been raising the minimum wage in locales around the country. At the same time, left-leaning politicians have sought the elimination of what's known as the tip credit, which allows employers to pay restaurant servers and other tipped employees a lower hourly base wage that they then bolster with gratuities.
Just a few years into this experiment, however, policymakers are showing signs of an about-face on the ti

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