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Porzio and Elizabeth A. Bourne and Daniel J. Ferrante and Jana L. No one should live — and die — under these circumstances, and no business model should depend on a workforce that does. The threshold for poverty varies with family composition. Working-poor Ohioans are among the biggest beneficiaries of the proposal: Not all workers who would benefit from raising the minimum wage live in or near poverty, but the fact that some are fortunate enough to have access to other income or share their homes with other earners does not change the responsibility employers have to pay a wage that meets the cost of living.
Because that cost — no matter where people scrape the resources to cover it — is the one workers incur to provide their labor to their employer. It would also make the labor market much more fair for workers who have been excluded from good jobs and higher wages. Women have been hit especially hard by the coronavirus recession. Public-health related shutdowns most impacted the industries in which women constitute a larger share of the workforce.
And COVID created new caregiving work for family members who became ill and children sent home from school and child care to contain the virus spread. This added work has fallen especially heavily on women — as unpaid care work typically does — forcing some women to limit paid work hours or leave their jobs altogether.
Since , before COVID, employers were hiring more women and paying them closer to what they pay men. Table 1 shows the number and share of Ohio men and women who would be paid more fairly for their labor under the ballot initiative once the measure is fully phased in, by Figures are all reported in dollars.
Reported hourly and annual wage increases are averages for all affected workers. These workers are projected to also see a pay increase as employers adjust pay scales to retain premia for more skilled and experienced workers. Table 1. The impact of eliminating the tip credit is shown as an average for all workers, but in practice the increase would go only to workers who receive some of their earnings in tips.
Thus this figure is an average of workers who would see a substantial benefit and others who would see no impact.
Meanwhile, decades of corporate attacks on unions have diminished the power of one of the most critical forces that help lift up working people of color. They have also helped employers to suppress wages, so that low- and middle-income workers are not paid what their work is truly worth.
Among Black workers, For Latinx workers, that figure is For Asian and other workers, White people benefiting from a minimum wage increase comprise Among workers of other races and ethnicities, Black people have always been vital members of the American labor force, but from forced enslavement until today, their work has been exploited and undervalued. Black U. Black workers in Ohio are paid less today than they were in Increasing the minimum wage is one critical step to repair the damage done to Black communities.
Table 2. Figure 2. Among those whose pay would go up, working parents outnumber teenagers by , , parents and , teens. High school grads with no further education are the single largest cohort of people whose pay would go up Next are Ohioans who have had some college but not received a degree This group includes both students working their way through college, and those who have left school without finishing.
Ohioans who have not completed high school make up Figure 3. While low-paying jobs can be found across industries, some industries stand out. Those with the largest share of affected workers are retail Ohio retail firms, where cashiers work face-to-face with customers all day long during the pandemic, topped the list of CEO-to-median-worker pay ratios, where some CEOs are paid more than 1, times the salary of the median worker. Restaurants, meanwhile, routinely shunt a portion of their workforce costs directly onto customers in the form of tips.
Because tip credits make it easy to steal from workers, and substantially raise the chances that workers will face poverty, eight states have done away with tip credits altogether. Ohio should follow their lead and implement equal treatment in pay for all workers regardless of industry.
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