For tipped workers, federal law requires employers to supplement workers' pay if those workers do not earn enough in tips to attain minimum wage.
Federal subsidies also encourage companies to continue paying hourly workers starvation wages. The higher the percentage of workers requiring public assistance, the more a company receives in federal aid. This translates to billions of dollars a year from taxpayers.
Just look at Walmart.
Look at McDonald's.
Paying low-wage workers more actually costs us less in the long run.
Keeping the poor poor only benefits the rich; it does nothing to boost the economy.
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