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Living wage
In most of the United States, even a $15 minimum wage isn't enough to make ends meet—and the gap becomes a chasm if you factor…
Americans are feeling the impoverishing effects of the shift from middle-income to low-income jobs. The disappearance—or, more accurately, downsizing—of living-wage jobs is documented by numerous…
The workers’ rights movement has exploded in the last few years, with fast food, agricultural and other workers staging strikes and other nonviolent actions to…
Every day, I serve food to some of the most powerful people on earth, including many of the senators who are running for president: I’m…
One. Seven Nobel Laureates in Economics Endorse the higher minimum wage to $10.10 by 2016, saying it does not lead to lower fewer jobs. Two. Job losses…