Documentary Video by CBS
“The restaurant industry has driven a significant amount of economic growth since the Great Recession, but many restaurant employees continue to end up hungry due to a two-tiered wage system that allows tipped workers to be paid as little as $2.13 an hour. CBS Reports’ Adam Yamaguchi travels to Indiana to explore the impact of tipping as a primary source of income for people in one of America’s fastest-growing workforces.”
Struggles like this have fallen on the backs of the working Middle Class in parts of the Rust Belt, Heartland and other regions of America that have faced rapid de-industrialization and technological change, as factories closed and were allowed to ship jobs overseas to labor-cheap markets, over the last 40 years.
