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Melissa Metz tends bar at Don’s Corner Pub, Tuesday, June 17, 2008, in Cincinnati. Metz draws most of her income as a bartender in Cincinnati from customers’ tips _ which she says have been dwindling for months amid rising gas prices and other economic...
