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Living Wage
The Right’s Anti-Minimum-Wage Arguments Have Pretty Much Stayed the Same for 80 Years
Minimum wage opponents have tended to view it as the harbinger of economic doomsday since its inception.
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Can the Electronics Industry Provide a Living Wage? Not While Corporations Set the Rules
People are fighting for a living wage in global electronics supply chains, but corporations and the WTO stand in their way.
Is $15 an Hour Enough?
A new report finds that in many states $15 an hour is not a living wage for a single person, let alone a family.
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Netflix’s Offer of Paid Family Leave Reflects Larger Divide in Tech
A new and improved benefit only applies to salaried employees in its web division.
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Executive Excess 2015: Money to Burn
This report reveals how our CEO pay system rewards executives for deepening the global climate crisis.
Washington Supreme Court Rules All SeaTac Workers Be Paid $15 Minimum Wage
SeaTac became the nation's first city to enact the minimum wage.
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$15 an Hour Now – Not Five to Seven Years From Now
It's long been proven that in the wake of a minimum wage increase, more money cycles throughout a local economy, creating more demand for goods and services.
Organizing for Affordable Housing in the South
Since 2009, the federal baseline wage has remained stagnant, but rents have jumped 15.2 percent.
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Connecticut Just Passed a Law Requiring Bosses Who Steal Workers’ Wages to Pay Them Back Double
In protests that continue to ripple across the country, workers have attested to the variety of ways by which they are deprived of their due pay.
WageCrushers.org Tracks the Groups Lobbying Against Family-Supporting Jobs
ALECexposed.org launched WageCrushers.org, a web resource devoted to exposing the groups working hard against better wages.