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How Fast Food Giants Use Loopholes to Avoid taxes, Pay Execs Giant Pay, and the Workers Peanuts
By Sarah Anderson The fast food industry is notorious for handing out lean paychecks to their burger flippers and fat ones to their CEOs. What’s less well-known is that taxpayers are actually subsidizing fast food incomes at both the bottom … Continue reading
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Tagged fast food, income inequality, jobs, KFC, Living wage, McDonald, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Yum Brands
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Fast Food Strikes Will Hit 100 Cities On Thursday
By Bryce Covert Fast food workers will stage a one-day strike against their employers in 100 cities on Thursday, activists told the New York Times’s Steven Greenhouse. Strikes will take place for the first time in some cities, such as … Continue reading
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Tagged fast food, Fast food restaurant, income inequality, Living wage, McDonald, minimum wage, strike
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Life on $7.25 an Hour
By Alan Feuer On a recent Friday evening, Eduardo Shoy left work at 6 p.m. Mr. Shoy, a deliveryman for KFC and Pizza Hut, was coming off an eight-hour shift of driving three-cheese pies and crispy chicken fingers, in an … Continue reading
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Tagged 12-hour clock, income inequality, KFC, Living wage, minimum wage, New York City, Pizza Hut, Thanksgiving
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Push for minimum wage hike led by localities, Democrats
By Mike DeBonis and Reid Wilson States and municipalities across the country are leading a localized push to raise the minimum wage, driven largely by Democrats, who see an opening to appeal to working-class Americans at a time of growing … Continue reading
Raising kids on McDonald’s wages: ‘Some days I’ve been up for 48 hours’
Latoya Jemes was working the drive-thru line at a McDonald’s in downtown Memphis one night when a man leaned out of his car window and asked if she’d be interested in taking part in a strike. Jemes hadn’t heard about the … Continue reading
For Restaurant Workers, A Struggle To Put Food On The Table
By Jennifer Ludden Losia Nyankale, 29, didn’t mean to make a career in the restaurant business. But after two years of college, her schoolteacher mom lost her job and could no longer pay tuition. Then, Nyankale’s temp jobs in bookkeeping dried … Continue reading
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Tagged Day care, family, Home, income inequality, low income, New York, Restaurant, wages
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Where Have America’s Wages Gone?
By Richard (RJ) Eskow A new briefing paper from the Economic Policy Institute provides an overview of the income stagnation currently plaguing the vast majority of Americans. “A Decade of Flat Wages,” by Lawrence Mishel and Heidi Shierholz, offers valuable background on … Continue reading
An Unfulfilled Demand From The March On Washington: A $15 Minimum Wage
By Bryce Covert When protestors gathered in the nation’s capital 50 years ago from Wednesday, they had ten concrete demands, one of which was “A national minimum wage act that will give all Americans a decent standard of living.” They … Continue reading
50 years after the March on Washington, what would MLK march for today?
By Peter Dreier What would the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. march for if he were alive today? America has made progress on many fronts in the half-century since King electrified a crowd of 200,000 people, and millions of Americans … Continue reading
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