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Many restaurant workers were already struggling to pay their bills long before COVID-19 swept across the country.
Due to a two-tiered wage system that still operates in 43 states, the restaurant and service industries are only required to pay tipped workers, such as servers and nail salon employees, a subminimum wage. On the federal level, that amounts to just $2.13 an hour. In places like Wyoming and Utah, that’s still […]
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