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Are you inadvertently financing a scheme to keep the minimum wage at the bare minimum?

The New York Times has uncovered the National Restaurant Association’s scheme to help finance their lobbying efforts to prevent a raise in the minimum wage

In today’s rising high-cost economy, minimum wage and the cost of living is an ongoing regular conversation in workplaces, social circles, politics, and within business. You may be in favor for increasing the minimum wage, but did you know that you may be also unknowingly financing the opposition to increase it?

The New York Times has discovered that SafeServe, a required $15 food safety course that educates restaurant and bar employees on food safety. Since 2010, it is estimated that SafeServe has made $25 million from the course.

SafeServe is a company of the National Restaurant Association, a member organization that represents 500,000 restaurants. The National Restaurant Association has been lobbying to keep the minimum wage down by trying to prevent increases within federal, state, and local laws.

And guess where the money is coming from to finance the National Restaurant Association’s lobbying efforts to prevent an increase in the minimum wage? Employees who need a minimum wage hike and work for the bars and restaurants associated with the National Restaurant Association.

READ MORE: How Restaurant Workers Help Pay for Lobbying to Keep Their Wages Low

Miles J. Edwards

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