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This Restaurant Pays A $15 Hourly Wage With Health Insurance, A Retirement Plan And Paid Leave
By Bryce Covert Jen Piallat, the owner of Zazie in San Francisco, knows what it’s like to work in the American restaurant industry. “I worked on the restaurant floor for 30 years before I owned my own,” she said. … Continue reading
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People Who Work For Tips Are Twice As Likely To Live In Poverty
By Bryce Covert People who work for tips are far more likely to live in poverty, according to a new report from the Economic Policy Institute EPI. The poverty rate for workers who don’t make tips is 6.5 percent, but … Continue reading
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Tagged business, Economic Policy Institute, Living wage, money, poverty, Snap, tips, wages, WIC, Working poor
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Minimum wage fight erupts: Landmark $15/hr. wage sparks legal showdown
By Josh Eidelson Following a county judge’s ruling dramatically narrowing the scope of an airport town’s landmark $15 wage law, labor groups plan to take their case to the Washington state Supreme Court. “The legal issue in front of the … Continue reading
Living Wage Ruling Gives Queens Casino Workers a Fighting Chance
By Rachel L. Swarns For the fast-food workers who demonstrated across the country this month, it is only a dream. For many economists and policy makers, it is the subject of intense debate. But there is nothing hypothetical about the … Continue reading
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Tagged Casino, fast food, Living wage, New York, New York City, Resorts World, Security guard, Single-parent, Wage
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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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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
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
A College Kid, A Single Mom, And The Problem With The Poverty Line : Planet Money : NPR
By Pam Fessler The College Kid Rico Saccoccio is a junior at Fordham University in the Bronx. He’s from a middle-class family in Connecticut and he spent the summer living at home with his parents, who cover about $15,000 a … Continue reading
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