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Understand how being unemployed can endanger not just yourself but those you love. Understand how we need to raise the minimum wage. Living on a $9.00 the minimum wage would still be extremely hard for families to survive but it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bureau of Labor Statistics, economy, education, employment, jobs, labor, Living wage, minimum wage, money, poverty, stress, unemployment, United States, Wage
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Low-Wage Workers On Federal Contracts Keep Up Pressure With 3rd Strike
By Alan Pyke Service workers at Washington D.C.’s Union Station are walking off the job Thursday morning to protest the federal government’s failure to ensure the companies it contracts with pay a livable wage. The strike is the third in eight … Continue reading
McJobs Are the Future: Why You Should Care What Fast Food Workers Earn
By Jordan Weissmann As I wrote earlier today, the corporate brass at McDonald’s seem to believe that in order to survive on what they pay their restaurant workers, you need a second job. And hey, credit where it’s due: they’re probably … Continue reading
Five myths about the minimum wage
By Betsey Stevenson In February’s State of the Union address, President Obama provoked conservatives’ ire by proposing an increase in the minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9. Especially in a struggling economy, wouldn’t a minimum-wage boost increase unemployment … Continue reading
Senator: Should hourly minimum wage be $22?
By Kim Peterson What if U.S. workers were paid more as the nation’s productivity increased? If we had adopted that policy decades ago, the minimum wage would now be about $22 an hour, said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) last week. … Continue reading
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