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The federal tipped minimum wage has a huge impact on the economic security of women and families. Join us and urge your Member of Congress to co-sponsor the WAGES Act and support fair pay policies for women, moms, and daughters!

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What, You Want to Pay Me Less for the Same Work?

That’s right. Women have to work for 16.5 months to earn what men make in 12 months because women still make an average of just 77 cents to every dollar that men make. Even though it is 2012, and even though the Equal Pay Act was passed almost 50 years ago, the sad reality is that across industries, women are still not getting equal pay for equal work.

In the restaurant industry in particular, the wage gap is so big you could see it from outer space: Full-time, year- round, female servers are paid 68 percent of what their male counterparts are paid.

So today, on Equal Pay Day, MomsRising is demanding that Congress support fair pay policies--and also pass the Working for Adequate Gains for Employment in Services (WAGES) Act, which raises the federal tipped minimum wage up from the $2.13 per hour where it's been stuck for decades.

Dear Member of Congress,

I am one of the more than one million members of MomsRising and I urge you to co-sponsor the WAGES Act. The federal minimum wage for tipped restaurant workers has been $2.13 for the past 20 years.

Tipped workers need a raise and 71% of servers and 66% of tipped restaurant workers are women. As a result, this workforce of mostly women has three times the poverty rate of the rest of the United States workforce, and more than half of all restaurant workers live below the federal poverty line for a family of three.

The low federal tipped minimum wage contributes to disproportionate hardship for women in the overall workforce.

Raising the tipped minimum wage is a simple step to address both the inadequacy and the inequity of pay for women working in the restaurant industry. An increase in the tipped minimum wage to $5.08 would give immediate relief to nearly 837,200 workers and their families (630,000 of whom are female tipped workers and many of whom live below the poverty line) while also raising the wage floor for over 10 million restaurant workers.

Please co-sponsor the WAGES Act today and put an end to the ongoing shortchanging of women!

Sincerely,

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