This year there’s been an ongoing debate in Congress concerning raising the federal minimum wage. The current federal minimum wage is just $7.25/hour with the minimum cash wage for tipped workers $2.13/hour. Further, because these amounts are not adjusted for inflation the amount minimum wage workers take home is becoming increasingly tight. In fact, single parent households making minimum wage with two kids falls thousands of dollars below the poverty line. Making matters worse, in certain situations employers may fail to pay workers the total amount of compensation they are…