Tipped workers are overwhelmingly female; nearly half are 30 years old or older; and the poverty rate for waiters and waitresses is 250% higher than for the workforce as a whole. Yet in 2012, corporate lobbies in Florida demanded a reduction in the minimum wage for tipped employees, from $4.65 to $2.13, because “it’s just going to be a matter of time before the back of this [restaurant] industry breaks. Minimum wage is killing them.” Oh, stop, you’re killing me.