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COVID-19 is hitting tipped workers hard

  • Written by Sarah B. Andrea, Postdoctoral Scholar, Epidemiology, University of Washington
imageTipped workers may struggle to make minimum wage, especially in the wake of the pandemic.Robert Alexander/Getty Images

Even prior to COVID-19, tipped workers suffered from the inadequacies of the United States’ social safety net and minimum wage standards.

The pandemic has exposed not only the inherent vulnerability of food service workers to...

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