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The attempted comeback of One Fair Wage

Working Lunch: This week's political podcast takes a look at the near death and possible resurrection at the local level of efforts to end the tip credit.

In this week’s Working Lunch, Joe Kefauver and Franklin Coley of Align Public Strategies discuss the strategies of the labor activist group One Fair Wage, which has been focusing efforts to end the tip credit on cities in New Jersey.

In addition, fun with tariffs continues. Kefauver and Coley debate how bigger restaurant chains and smaller companies are uniquely vulnerable to tariff moves ahead.

 

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