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US labor law has allowed this practice to continue. Although the federal min wage is $7.25, the "subminimum wage" for tipped workers is only $2.13. In many states and most of the South, employers rely on customers to make up the other $5.12 the worker is owed. 🧵3/6
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The legalization of the subminimum wage created a two-tiered system that continues today as a means of racial and economic control. Though this separate and unequal treatment of tipped workers is rooted in anti-Black racism, today it harms workers of color more broadly. 🧵4/6
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