While the country’s minimum wage requires most workers to be paid at least $7.25 an hour, that’s not true for those who earn tips. Their minimum wage is $2.13, a figure that hasn’t increased in more than two decades. Employers are supposed to make sure that their wages, combined with tips, equal at least the full minimum wage, but many don’t.
Calling this inequity “shameful,” Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pushed to end the tipped minimum wage altogether at a rally in New York City...
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2016/03/04/3756662/hillary-clinton-tipped-minimum-wage/
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