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Living Wage
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Fight for 15 in NYC Just Got a Lot More Promising and a Lot More Complicated
Bill de Blasio's role in helping Andrew Cuomo attain the endorsement of the Working Families Party has opened up a space for a more vigorous and radical discussion of …
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The Other NRA
The powerful National Restaurant Association does all it can to assure that industry wages are kept so low many workers rely on public assistance and that paid sick leave …
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A Living Minimum Wage
A living wage must mean a minimum wage that rises to meet the higher living standards of each new generation to be a living threshold, not a dead hand …
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The Counter-Attack of Seattle’s Elites
The fight for a living wage intensifies.
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Boosting the Minimum Wage to $10.10 an Hour Should Be a No-Brainer
Public support for a minimum wage hike is overwhelming, but lobbying by powerful corporations is tripping it up in Congress.
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How Does Yasiin Bey’s Mathematics Add Up Now?
How have the politics and statistics Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) used in his 1999 song “Mathematics” changed in the 15 years since the song's release?
It’s the Money, Honey
While global garment industry revenue represents the lion's share of many countries' exports and GDP, the workers who make the garments almost never make a living wage - and …
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Activists Win Coordinated Wage Boost in DC, Nearby Counties
Working as a coalition, with groups on both sides of the border and groups working for both issues, proved essential.
Vermont Students, Workers Object to Tuition Dollars Being Used to Fund Poverty Wages
Rising tuition, faculty cuts and non-living wages for workers at Vermont colleges are prompting student labor organizers to ask if tuition dollars should be used to exacerbate inequality.
Michael Pollan on the Food Movement’s Next Goal of Justice for Food Workers
Paying fast food workers a living wage would reflect the true cost of our food.