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Minimum wage activists call tipping racist

By Sean Higgins
Published April 1, 2017 4:10am ET
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Minimum wage activists call tipping racist
Success of movement has brought more attention to the laws' exception for tipped employees. (AP Photo/Don Ryan) | Don Ryan

Tipping is racist.

That’s the argument being forwarded by some liberal activists and politicians as a way of stigmatizing laws that exempt certain professions, mainly restaurant workers, from the federal minimum wage.

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