Quote of the Day, March 27, 2013, excerpted from Salon.com’s “When Workers Die and Nobody Calls 911,” by Jim Morris and Chip Mitchell: By the time Carlos Centeno [...]
Mar 28 2013
Quote of the Day, January 18, 2013, excerpted from The Nation.com’s “This Week in Poverty” by Greg Kaufmann: People are beginning to recognize that we have a prol[...]
Jan 18 2013
By Dashka Slater Originally Distributed via OtherWords (OtherWords.org) For those on the economic ladder’s lowest rungs, the middle rungs have almost completely disappeared. [...]
Sep 24 2012
A couple of years back, a woman I’ll call Kate contacted me to tell me about her job managing an office providing provided blue-collar workers to enterprises in need of short-term [...]
Jul 17 2012
Tagged: exploitation, Gabriel Thompson, gary rivlin, low-wage, poverty, temp agencies, temp work, temps
It’s still dark when I show up at the Labor Ready storefront in downtown Oakland, California, just a few blocks from the plaza where the Occupy crowd threw up its tents again[...]
Jul 16 2012
Tagged: California, Gabriel Thompson, labor, low-income, low-wage, minimum wage, Oakland, poor, temp agencies, temp work, wage theft, Working Poor
Quote of the Day, July 12, 2012 More than 25,000 low wage temporary workers labor each day in Massachusetts. Many are deployed to work in hazardous jobs such as residential constru[...]
Jul 12 2012
Quote of the Day, June 21, 2012 Low-wage work is a pandemic. A third of our population ekes by on less than $36,000 for a family of three. That’s 103 million people living on[...]
Jun 21 2012
Quote of the Day, June 6, 2012 Our research shows that states’ wage theft laws are grossly inadequate, contributing to a rising trend in workplace violations that affects millions [...]
Jun 6 2012
Quote of the Day, June 4, 2012 Today, 100 years after the first minimum wage law was passed, low-wage industries once again threaten to impoverish America’s workforce and derail th[...]
Jun 4 2012