Alma Adams: “I recently introduced the Closing the Meal Gap Act of 2016 to strengthen the SNAP program.”

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

Any programs that would support financing... would be beneficial.

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.