Alma Adams: “I just can't imagine that we would not advocate for them to be paid less for the same work just because they are women.”

The current sub-minimum wage with tipped employees perpetuates low pay, enables, inexcusable levels of wage theft, and it leads to higher poverty rates.

I introduced the Capital for Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Act of 2024 (H.R. 8598) with Representative Strickland.

The Trump administration's attempt to gut protections for tipped workers have only worsened these issues by allowing employers to steal almost 6 billion dollars of worker's hard-earned tips for themselves each year.

Tipped workers are unfortunately paid less per hour than non-tipped workers, and they have less access to benefits.