Advocates of a higher minimum wage have scaled back their push for a $15-an-hour rate, holding fewer events this year than they have since the movement began in 2014. The slowdown has critics of the movement claiming that their pushback is working.

The Employment Policy Institute, a conservative advocacy group, reports that liberal activists said they held 340 strikes or other protests in cities across the nation last year, but have held 33 events so far this year. In the vast majority of those cases, the events was piggybacking on other protests.