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Park Slope Restaurants Found To Violate Labor, Wage Laws

Posted 11.20.2009 | New York

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More than 20 restaurants in Brooklyn's tony Park Slope neighborhood have been found to be in violation of labor laws, State Labor Commissioner M. Patr...

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Workers Pay the Price in an Era of Declining Job Quality

Janet Murguía | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Workforce, Safety Laws, Latinos, Wage Laws, Occupational Fatality Rate, Recession, Competition, Labor Protections, Labor Day, Employers, Labor Laws, Health Insurance, National Council of La Raza, Health Care, U.S. Department of Labor, Business News
Janet Murguía

When employers violate wage and occupational safety laws, they effectively devalue hard work and workers' lives. It is simply outrageous and unacceptable that a country like ours allows people to work to death.

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Weekly Audit: EFCA, Tax Cheats and the Racial Wealth Gap

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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The Media Consortium

The U.S. economy may finally be bottoming out. But while conditions may improve in a dry, statistical sense, the foundation for a productive economy has been decimated over the past three decades.

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