Maine tried to raise its minimum wage. Restaurant workers didn’t want it.

By Caitlin Dewey,  The Washington Post
As the Maine House voted on a bill to reduce the minimum wage for tipped restaurant workers, Jason Buckwalter and a dozen fellow servers listening to the vote call from the backroom of a Bangor steakhouse. All hoped to hear one thing: that state legislators had voted to lower their wages. Some cried with relief, Buckwalter said, when lawmakers voted 110-37 in favor of lowering the minimum wage.
The June 13 vote brought a conclusion to a political