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Attention Restaurant Workers! Mad King Trump Wants To Give Restaurant Owners Your Tips! “Mad King” Donald Trump wants to give your tips to his buddies! Restaurant workers who rely on tips to survive could receive a  massive pay cut . The Trump administration wants to take away your tips and put them in the pocket of the restaurant owner. The Trump Administration is proposing rescinding an Obama-era rule that stated tips are the property of the servers. Trump’s Labor Department wants to change the rule to say the restaurant owner is the owner of the tips. As a result, the administration’s proposal would allow restaurant owners to collect all the tips and do whatever they want with them. Thus, restaurant owners could keep diners in the dark and pocket all the tips for themselves.  This “reverse Robin Hood” scheme would take money out of the pockets of low-wage workers and give it to business owners. It is just one more example of “trickle-down” economic policy masquerading as pr...

Trump Administration Racism Now Expands To HUD As HUD Wants To Limit Fair Housing Complaints Trump Administration racism is now kicking down the door at HUD. The administration wants to make it harder for people to sue lenders and landlords for housing discrimination. HUD has also become the last bastion for women and people of color to seek justice against landlords and lenders. HUD to make it harder to prosecute lenders for housing discrimination under the Fair Housing Act. Is this another example of Trump administration racism? The Trump administration has been rolling back an Obama-era practice of enforcing the Fair Housing Act. Read more at MFI-Miami