According to a paper released Thursday by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, a liberal think tank, the rate at which workers suffered violations of minimum-wage law increased almost in lock step with the unemployment rate during the last recession. On average, the workers on the receiving end of these violations lost about one-fifth of their hourly wage.

Economists from the Roosevelt Institute make the case for states and localities to raising taxes on their wealthier residents.

Building an equitable restaurant – where all workers are paid fairly, have benefits, and work without discrimination – will require undoing the way most restaurants are run.