Quote of the Day, March 18, 2013- excerpted from a Nick Wing piece in Huffington Post on last week’s Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing. Senat[...]
Mar 18 2013
Quote of the Day, March 5th, 2013, excerpted from ”Raising the Minimum Wage is a Step Toward Economic Freedom” by Annette Bernhardt in Next New Deal: One particular con[...]
Mar 7 2013
Quote of the Day – November 28, 2012 The biggest issue, however, and the real reason why the minimum wage is not only necessary but must actually be raised, is the cycle of p[...]
Nov 28 2012
Quote of the Day, July 16, 2012 Back at the Labor Ready office, I have to wait nearly 30 minutes to receive my check. The job paid $8 an hour—minimum wage. For five hours of labor,[...]
Jul 16 2012
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, 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