Restaurant Industry's Low Wages Leave 40% Of Workers In Near-poverty

The minimum wage for tipped workers hasn't gone up in more than 20 years, and a recent study reminds us of the human costs of that policy and of the restaurant industry's reliance on low-wage labor. Perhaps the most striking finding in the report by the Economic Policy Institute's Heidi Shierholz (now headed to the Department of Labor) is that "typical wage of $15.42 per hour" for restaurant managers "is still lower than the overall median wage outside the restaurant industry." So this is an industry where the managers earn less than the median for other industries.

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