Giving Workers a Good Tip and a Living Wage
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Imagine your wages frozen for two decades at $2.13 per hour. No, I am not talking about a Third World sweatshop. The kid who put your groceries in the car, the waitress who served you dinner at your favorite restaurant last week, the guy or girl who vacuumed out your car at the car wash. All these are tipped workers and their wages in the United States have been frozen for 20 years. Passage of The Wages Act (HR 631) would make progress in closing the gap between tipped workers, many of them young, and all other workers.