Quote of the Day, May 29, 2012
On top of how awful the wages are for so many jobs, wage theft adds up to an astonishing number of dollars because employers take brutal advantage of workers and either don’t pay overtime or the minimum wage or just don’t pay the worker at all for day labor. It’s just remarkable, in a terrible way, what a huge problem this is.–Peter Edelman to Karen Dolan, excerpted from a recent interview Peter Edelman on “Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America.”

