We Can Solve California’s Service Worker Crisis
Ending Tipping Culture, Implementing a Livable Wage, and Training Future Leaders Can Sustain an Essential Industry
Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to descend on Indio, California, this month for the 2023 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
The festival is a banner event for Riverside County, with people coming in droves to catch their favorite acts performing live in the desert.
But with all of this tourism money flowing into the local economy, service industry workers, who have helped Coachella become one of the biggest, most influential, and highest-grossing festivals in the world, are not making enough to get by.
At last night’s program, “What Is a …
