Dahlia Tarver

In 2018, Massachusetts state lawmakers came up with a “grand bargain” to raise pay rates for tipped workers, servers, bartenders, and others. Over a five-year period, beginning in 2019, the law steadily raised the $4.35-per-hour tipped minimum wage 60 cents each year until the rate reached $6.75 per hour in 2023. Last year, the Bay State raised the minimum wage for non-tipped workers to $15 per hour.

“I love Gen Z,” Vice President Kamala Harris said in a campaign advertisement. “You know your power. Your power through your voice, through your vote.” But Harris’s attempts to turn out young voters weren’t nearly as successful as she would have hoped. President-elect Donald Trump made large gains with young people disillusioned by their future prospects and by the Democratic candidate who believed that she’d won them over.