Alma Adams: “Too often we view economic progress as a zero-sum game where if workers win, employers lose.”

In one of the richest countries in the world, no one working full-time should be living in poverty.

In one of the richest countries in the world no one working full-time should be living in poverty.

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.

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