Living Wage

Why Bloomberg's Free Market Talk Rings False

Larry Hirsch | Posted 05.02.2012

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Whether it is for reporting, procurement, accounting, equal rights or many other purposes, part of the contract any business makes with the government is to abide by the rules.

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Bloomberg Vetoes Living Wage Bill, Promises Court Fight

Posted 04.25.2012

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Mayor Bloomberg made good on his promise to veto the living wage bills Wednesday, CBS reports, and promised legal action if City Council overrides the...

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Hold Onto That Paycheck! ALEC "Sharpens Focus on Jobs"

Mary Bottari | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Alec, American Legislative Exchange Council, Johnson & Johnson, AT&T, State Farm, Minimum Wage, Stand Your Ground, Living Wage, Politics News

ALEC and the corporations funding ALEC's operations would like to turn back the clock to those good old days when there were no unions and no minimum wage. They must not be allowed to succeed.

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Bloomberg Compares A Living Wage To Communism

Posted 04.13.2012

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Mayor Bloomberg took time out of his busy Friday morning kissing Miss Piggy to take a jab at city council's living wage bill, comparing the legislatio...

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Romney Finds Republican Religion on the Minimum Wage

Richard Kirsch | Posted 05.07.2012

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As Mitt Romney knows, it's easy to go after the very poor. But there is overwhelming support for people who are working hard and still barely able to feed their families. Even if people make above the minimum wage, they still feel the economic crush of stagnant wages, disappearing benefits and job insecurity.

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20 Students On Hunger Strike For Hourly Employee Pay Raise

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.28.2012

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Twenty students at the University of Virginia Charlottesville campus are on a hunger strike protesting the low wages paid to hourly employees in the u...

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Why I'm Hunger Striking at UVA

Joseph Williams | Posted 04.25.2012

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In failing to implement a living wage for its lowest paid employees, the University of Virginia has also failed to uphold the moral standards to which it holds its students.

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Why Cornel West Supports Unionizing Cafeteria Workers at University of Miami

Philipp Schwind | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Stand, Living Wage, Food Service Workers, Students Toward a New Democracy, Cornel West, University of Miami, Unions, Miami News

How is it possible for an institution of higher learning to educate young minds, help to turn them into responsible critical citizens and leaders while at the same time ignoring the plight of those who work in the community?

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Desperately Working to Stay Afloat

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Economy, Economic Crisis, Working Poor, Child Poverty, Safety Net, Food Stamps, Welfare, Minimum Wage, Underemployment, Head Start, Living Wage, Politics News

At one time, the Nations owned a home. But like so many other American families, their standard of living has declined over the past decade even though they are a two-parent working family.

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Social Justice Quiz 2012: Thirteen Questions

Bill Quigley | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Foreign Aid, CEO Pay, Incarceration, Military Spending, Net Worth, Living Wage, Global Poverty, Affordable Housing, Class Warfare, Income Inequality, Economic Inequality, Politics News

Question One. The combined pay of the 299 highest paid CEOs in the U.S. is enough to support how many median salary jobs?

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Working Poor USA

Bill Quigley | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Underemployment, Working Poor, Living Wage, Wage Theft, Unemployment, Overtime, Minimum Wage Employment, Minimum Wage, Business News

Millions of people in the U.S. work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the U.S. needs to dedicate itself to making work pay.

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Why I Told My Daughter to Quit Her Job

Holly Robinson | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Salaries, Quitting a Job, Unemployment, Empty Nesters, Life Choices, Economy, Living Wage, Careers, Career Counseling, College Majors, Parenting, Business, Job Market Statistics, College Graduates, Adult Children, College News

My daughter is the poster child for why college matters. She did everything right, and lo and behold, the system worked. Slowly, though, things unraveled.

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The 'Emperor's New Clothes' and the New Economy

Amy Gutman | Posted 03.12.2012

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I've started to feel more and more like the kid in "The Emperor's New Clothes." Goodbye stable middle-class job. Hello, McDonald's.

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Women Retail Workers Make Less, Get Fewer Benefits Than Men

Alice Hines | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Women Workers, Retail News, Holiday Shopping, Temp-Workers, Unemployment, Gender Discrimination, Retail Workers, Tommy Hilfiger, Living Wage, Business News

In a time when jobs are scarce, retail is one of the few industries hiring -- creating about 500,000 temporary jobs this holiday season, according to ...

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New York City Needs a Real Living Wage

Margaret S. Chin | Posted 02.06.2012

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The benefits of living wage laws are not abstract. They are not just about money or development or investment. They are about doing what is right, just, and fair.

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PAY UP: San Francisco's Minimum Wage Hike Makes History

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.04.2011

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On January 1st of next year, San Francisco will make history. The city will become the first place in America to have its minimum wage top ten dollars...

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The Right Course on Living Wage

Larry Hirsch | Posted 01.29.2012

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Reading the arguments for and against the Living Wage Bill currently before the City Council, there seems to be a logical way to move it forward that will both help workers and protect small businesses.

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If You Take Our Money, Pay Us Fairly

Andrew Wilkes | Posted 01.18.2012

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It's time for developers to adjust to paying workers a living wage as a condition of accepting taxpayer money for large-scale commercial development in the city.

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Time to Rebuild Our Foundations

Jim Wallis | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Living Wage, Economic Justice, President Obama, Biblical Economics, Scripture, Gleaning Laws, Obstructionism, American Jobs Bill, Jobs, Republicans, Hunger, National Infrastructure Bank, Biblical Law, Politics News

A survey released this week by the Public Religion Research Institute shows that majorities in every major religious category, as well as the religiously unaffiliated, all believe that the country would be better off if the distribution of wealth was more equal.

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What's Good for Women Is Good for the Nation: Jobs, Livable Wages and Equal Pay

Terry O'Neill | Posted 11.04.2011

Read More: Economic Recovery, Women, Jobs, Terry O'neill, National Organization for Women, CEO Pay, Living Wage, Equal Pay, Politics News

Workers who make less than a livable wage can't set aside savings for a rainy day, let alone a rainy year and counting. This problem is compounded for women by the fact that they work their whole lives at unequal pay.

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Business Interests Take Aim At New Wage Theft Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Minimum Wage, Labor, Wage Theft, Wages, Restaurants, Department of Labor, Living Wage, Construction, Florida, Wage Theft Prevention Act, Day Laborers, Business News

Late last year, advocates for low-wage workers in Florida's Palm Beach County made what they thought was a modest request of their county commissioner...

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New Hampshire Republicans Restrict Minimum Wage

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: National Employment Law Project, Collective Bargaining, Minimum Wage, Right to Work, New Hampshire, Living Wage, Unions, John Lynch, New England, Politics News

New Hampshire legislators voted to override a veto by Democratic Gov. John Lynch on Wednesday, paving the way for a new law to restrict the state's mi...

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Unlivable Wages Mean Unlivable Conditions

Joel John Roberts | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Homelessness, Los Angeles, Third World America, Poverty, Impact News

Ending homelessness in this country means raising the rate of pay for hard-working people, or lowering the rate of rents, or building enough apartments that are affordable to everyone.

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Why New York City Needs a "Living Wage" Law

Ruben Diaz Jr. | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Living Wage, New York City Council, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Economic Development, New York News

We have tremendous income inequality in this city. That is why the Fair Wages for New Yorkers Act is so important, not only as a matter of economic justice, but as sound fiscal policy as well.

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Contempt for the Poor

Pat LaMarche | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Homeless, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Health Insurance, Homelessness, Diane Nilan, Healthcare, Politics News

I work in a homeless shelter and daily learn stories that prove few folks in power think about the poor when they are making the rules which effect them.

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