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Living Wage
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Holiday Greeting: No Peace Without Justice
There can be no peace without justice. At least five areas of blatant injustice warrant the urgent attention of people of good will: poverty wages, immigrant detention, harsh sentencing, …
Walmart Seems Like a Deal, but Have You Crunched the Numbers?
Walmart seems like a deal, but have you crunched the numbers? A video interview by Ted Asregadoo.
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Preparing a Goldilocks Economy: Getting the Minimum Wage Just Right
Saving the US economy begins with increasing the minimum wage, says economist Jeffrey Sommers.
Migration Across the Mediterranean: When Will Europe See That Too Many People Have Died?
Peter Mayo interviews a Croatian journalist on the legacy of colonialism behind the EU's immigration policies.
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Want to Cut Food Stamp Spending? Raise the Minimum Wage
Don't cut programs for the people who need them, cut those people's need for the programs.
“Thinking Globally, Acting Locally” in the Minimum Wage Fight
“Think globally, act locally,” has been the philosophy that many minimum wage fighters have been adopting in their fight for a living wage.
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Labor As Seen from Down Under: Fair Wages and Decent Benefits Profit Everyone
The idea that workers have to be beaten down at every turn just doesn't add up, as industrial experience Down Under shows every day of the year.
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Walmart Workers Will Make History on Friday As America Confronts Growing Inequality
This year, the day after Thanksgiving will be remembered as the day Americans took action to demand that Walmart pay workers livable wages.
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“They Call Us Illegal”: Fast-Food Workers Face Silent Raids
Is it a crime to work? Or is it a crime to pay workers less than S8.50 an hour for grueling work and short their wages or fire them …
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The Time Has Come for $15 Minimum Wage
If it wasn't for such laws as the minimum wage, bosses would reduce workers' wages and benefits to near zero.