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How the end of slavery led to two different minimum wages

by Jasmine Garsd
Feb 9, 2021
After the Civil War, companies didn’t want to reach into their own pockets to pay recently freed enslaved people.
The national tipped minimum wage is just $2.13 an hour. Companies have to kick in more if workers don't make at least $7.25 an hour when you add in their tips.
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"Tip baiting" is just the latest battle over tips among gig workers

by Meghan McCarty Carino
Apr 10, 2020
Gig platforms have long been ambivalent about encouraging tips that many workers depend on.
An Uber Eats delivery worker on March 19 in New York City.
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Minimum wage hike would boost tipped workers' pay

by Mitchell Hartman
Aug 8, 2019
The House-passed Raise the Wage Act would phase out the $2.13 an hour federal minimum for tipped workers.
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