The Left Behind Economy
8/25/19
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from TIME Magazine,
8/22/19:
For Millions of American Workers Living on Tips Has Become Unlivable.
The decade-long economic expansion has been a boon to those at the top of the economic ladder. But it left millions of workers behind, particularly the 4.4 million workers who rely on tips to earn a living, fully two-thirds of them women. Even as wages have crept up–if slowly–in other sectors of the economy, the minimum wage for waitresses and other tipped workers hasn’t budged since 1991.
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