It’s not if you’re living here. Most states have laws that say tipped employees are exempt from normal minimum wage requirements, instead allowing companies to pay them around $2/hr. Companies charge exorbitant amounts for their goods but are too damn cheap to pay even the normal minimum wage of roughly $7.25-15 /hr, depending on the state, which most Americans agree still isn’t enough to live off of. Add to that an abysmally broken public education system which doesn’t teach it’s students how to engage with the government and you end up with a country where only the wealthy get a voice, poverty is allowed to fester, and upward mobility is nearly impossible for millions of people.
It’s not if you’re living here. Most states have laws that say tipped employees are exempt from normal minimum wage requirements, instead allowing companies to pay them around $2/hr. Companies charge exorbitant amounts for their goods but are too damn cheap to pay even the normal minimum wage of roughly $7.25-15 /hr, depending on the state, which most Americans agree still isn’t enough to live off of. Add to that an abysmally broken public education system which doesn’t teach it’s students how to engage with the government and you end up with a country where only the wealthy get a voice, poverty is allowed to fester, and upward mobility is nearly impossible for millions of people.