Alma Adams: “I wish to acknowledge the ranking member of our full committee, Congressman Bobby Scott, and thank him for being here…”

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

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

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

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.