Ending the tipped minimum wage (with Saru Jayaraman)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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The Great Resignation
We surveyed three thousand workers. 54 % say they're leaving the industry. 78%, nearly eight and ten, say the only thing that would make them stay or come back is full, livable wage with tips on top. We need to end all sub wages in many states. I really want us to ask everybody who's listening, what the point of having a minimum wage if we can earn less than it? Legally there's got to be nothing but a minimum wage If we believe in the concept of a minimum wage, 15 is the least anywhere in this country. That is the bare dictator at this point. And anybody in this country could live on so much as 18 as an
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