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Tipped Minimum Wage

Customer using checkout system and choosing tip | Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group/Newscom

Taxes

There Are Better Ways To Help Restaurant Workers Than No Tax on Tips

Helping servers takes more than a temporary tip tax break.

C. Jarrett Dieterle | 7.12.2025 7:00 AM

A waitress is seen surrounded by cash | Illustration: Eddie Marshall | ChatGPT

Minimum Wage

D.C. Pauses Plans To Hike Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers

The issue has long polarized a city that is dominated by liberal and progressive politics and politicians, some of whom have confronted that good intentions do not equal good outcomes here.

Billy Binion | 6.3.2025 6:00 PM

Dollar bills on a restaurant table. | ID 90018022 © Fastglassphotos | Dreamstime.com

Taxes

Yes, We Should End Taxes on Tips

Taxing tips generates practically no revenue, burdens workers, and fuels pointless IRS audits.

Jared Dillian | 3.8.2025 7:00 AM

An illustration of a New York Times article with an editor's mark on it | Lex Villena

Minimum Wage

The New York Times Claimed D.C.'s Minimum Wage Hike Created Jobs. We Exposed Their Error.

The reporting was cited by One Fair Wage as proof that its policy worked.

Justin Zuckerman | 11.22.2024 4:08 PM

A waiter holds a tray of drinks | ID 114744889 © Mykyta Starychenko | Dreamstime.com

Ballot Initiatives

Massachusetts Voters Protect the Right To Work for Tips

The tug-of-war over what role the government should play in regulating compensation for tipped workers has subverted typical partisan lines.

Billy Binion | 11.6.2024 2:01 AM

Trump and Biden stand in front of a background of gold coins | Illustratiion: Lex Villena; Pool/ABACA/Newscom

Tipping

Biden and Trump Hope to Tip the Election Scales With Working-Class Proposals

Competing visions on tipping policies highlight the differences in the candidates’ approaches to winning over working-class voters—but neither will provide much benefit.

C. Jarrett Dieterle | 7.13.2024 7:00 AM

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders | Chris Kleponis - Pool via CNP/picture alliance / Consolidated News

Minimum Wage

Bernie Sanders Introduces a Bill To Raise Minimum Wage to $17 by 2028

The proposal would raise the federal minimum wage by 134 percent.

William Rampe | 8.2.2023 11:51 AM

Voters in Nebraska, Nevada, and Washington, D.C., approved minimum wage increases during Tuesday's midterm elections. |  TASOS KATOPODIS/UPI/Newscom

Election 2022

Worries About Inflation Didn't Stop Voters From Approving Minimum Wage Increases

A minimum wage increase passed in Nebraska and appears to have done the same in Nevada. In D.C., tipped workers will get a possibly unwelcome increase as well.

Eric Boehm | 11.9.2022 3:30 PM

sipaphotoseleven436437 | Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/Newscom

Tipped Minimum Wage

Democrats' COVID-19 Aid Package Would Quietly Eliminate the Tipped Minimum Wage as Restaurants Struggle To Stay Alive

Do small businesses need another punch in the gut?

Billy Binion | 2.23.2021 6:07 PM

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Minimum Wage

Congressional Democrats Push $15 Minimum Wage on Struggling Businesses

American companies would need relief from Democrats’ COVID relief efforts.

Billy Binion | 1.26.2021 4:50 PM

dreamstime_xxl_133458534 | Seventyfourimages | Dreamstime.com

Minimum Wage

Denver's Proposed $15.87 Minimum Wage Hike 'Hurts the People It's Trying To Help'

The restaurant industry would likely suffer under the legislation.

Billy Binion | 9.27.2019 4:55 PM

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Minimum Wage

Minimum Wage Hikes in NYC Are Forcing Businesses to Cut Jobs and Raise Prices

The mandated pay increases disproportionately impact the restaurant industry.

Billy Binion | 8.6.2019 5:05 PM

polspphotos589088 | Stefani Reynolds/CNP / Polaris/Newscom

Minimum Wage

Rep. Rashida Tlaib Wants a $20 Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers. That Would Likely Destroy the Restaurant Industry.

The Democratic congresswoman said that people cannot live off tips. People who live off tips beg to differ.

Billy Binion | 7.24.2019 5:05 PM

Large image on homepages | Richard B. Levine/Newscom

Minimum Wage

Minimum Wage Hikes in New York City Cause Restaurants to Eliminate Jobs, Cut Hours, Raise Prices

Good intentions do not always lead to good outcomes.

Billy Binion | 1.24.2019 4:01 PM

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Reasontv

Stossel: The End of Tipping?

Activists want to increase minimum wage for tipped workers.

John Stossel and Tanvir Toy | 7.31.2018 9:45 AM

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