2020 – 2021 Research

PRESENTATION: Research on the Tipped Minimum Wage: Findings from Survey Research of Restaurant Workers in the District of Columbia 

NEW REPORT: No Rights, Low Wages, No Service: How Increased Violations of of Workers’ Rights in 2021, Coupled with High Harassment and Low Wages and Tips, Have Pushed Workers to Leave the Service Sector 

NATIONAL REPORT: Raising Wages to Reopen: Restaurants Nationwide Raising Wages to Save Their Businesses After Covid-19

HOW-TO GUIDE: Restaurants Can Provide Livable Wages: A How-to-Guide for Restaurateurs to Transition Profitably to One Fair Wage

REPORT: HELP WANTED: The Impact (Or Lack Thereof) of Ending Unemployment Insurance on Restaurant Workers Willingness to Work for Subminimum Wages 

NATIONAL REPORT: IT’S A WAGE SHORTAGE, NOT A WORKER SHORTAGE: Why Restaurant Workers, Particularly Mothers, Are Leaving the Industry, and What Would Make Them Stay

REPORT: It’s Not a Worker Shortage, It’s a Wage Shortage: Why New York Restaurant Workers Are Leaving the Industry, And What Would Make Them Stay

REPORT: It’s Not a Worker Shortage, It’s a Wage Shortage: Why Michigan Restaurant Workers Are Leaving the Industry, And What Would Make Them Stay

REPORT: It’s Not a Worker Shortage, It’s a Wage Shortage: Why Illinois Restaurant Workers Are Leaving the Industry, And What Would Make Them Stay

REPORT: MINIMIZING WAGES & WORKER HEALTH: How the “Other NRA” Continues to Stymie Critical Progress in Massachusetts

REPORT: How the Raise the Wage Act Will Decrease Worker Poverty and Increase Small Business Success in the Maine Restaurant Industry

POLL: Representative Sample Polling of Tipped Workers in Maine, New Hampshire, and Delaware

REPORT: The National Restaurant Association’s Duplicitous Lobbying, Perpetuation of Race and Gender Inequity, and Support for Insurrectionists

REPORT: DOING MORE FOR LESS: New York Restaurant Workers’ Experiences of Tips, Surcharges, Racial Inequity, and Why They’re Leaving the Industry During Covid-19

REPORT: The Tipping Point How the Subminimum Wage Keeps Incomes Low and Harassment High

BRIEF: New York Brief on The Tipped Minimum Wage as a Gender Equity Issue: It’s Time To End The Subminimum Wage

BRIEF: Illinois Brief on The Tipped Minimum Wage as a Gender Equity Issue: It’s Time To End The Subminimum Wage

LETTER: WEST VIRGINIA STATEWIDE TELEPHONE SURVEY ON MINIMUM WAGE

REPORT: How the Raise the Wage Act Will Decrease Worker Poverty and Increase Small Business Success in the Maine Restaurant Industry

REPORT: Decline in Open Hospitality Businesses Due to COVID-19

LETTER: Letter to United States Congress Members re: Support of Raise the Wage Act

REPORT:  Ending a Legacy Of Slavery: How Biden’s Covid Relief Plan Cures the Racist Subminimum Wage

WHITE PAPER: Full Deal for Full Recovery: Congressmembers: Pass the American Rescue Plan in Its Entirety!

REPORT: Washington DC Service Workers Experience of Health & Harassment During Covid-19

NATIONAL REPORT: “Take Your Mask Off So I Know How Much to Tip you: Service Workers’ Experience of Health & Harassment During COVID-19

REPORT: UPSTATE NY SERVICE WORKERS EXPERIENCE OF HEALTH & HARASSMENT DURING COVID

REPORT: Massachusetts Service Workers Experience of Health & Harassment During Covid-19

NATIONAL REPORT: How the Subminimum Wage Disincentives COVID-19 Safety Enforcement in Restaurants

REPORT: How the Subminimum Wage Disincentivizes COVID-19 Safety Enforcement in MA Restaurants

REPORT: How the Subminimum Wage Disincentivizes COVID-19 Safety Enforcement in NY Restaurants

NATIONAL REPORT: A Persistent Legacy of Slavery-Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers as a Racial Equity Measure

REPORT: A Persistent Legacy of Slavery-Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers in Illinois as a Racial Equity Measure

REPORT: A Persistent Legacy of Slavery-Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers in Massachusetts as a Racial Equity Measure

REPORT: A Persistent Legacy Of Slavery: Ending the Subminimum Wage for Tipped Workers in New York as a Racial Equity Measure

JUNE REPORT: Locked Out By Low Wages: New York Service Workers’ Challenges With Accessing Unemployment Insurance During Covid-19 

REPORT: Roadmap To Reimagine Restaurants A New Path Forward After COVID-19

REPORT: Locked Out by Low Wages: Service Workers’ Challenges with Accessing Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19

REPORT: Michigan Service Workers’ Challenges with Accessing Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19.

REPORT: Locked out by Low Wages: DC Service Workers’ Challenges Accessing Unemployment Insurance During COVID-19.

FACTSHEET: This Moment is Highlighting Why We’ve Needed One Fair Wage All Along

FACTSHEET: NY Still Needs One Fair Wage

Letter from Doctors & Public Health Officials to NY Governor Cuomo Re: COVID-19