Wage Fields News Today

Africans. >> reporter: 230 years of history survived the storm. taking measure of all thats lost is part of recovering from. life is never quite the same. weaker than expected jobs report has investors worried. >> they added 235,000 positions. the hiring boom that occurred. leisure and hospitality didnt budge. retail jobs declined. the upside, the unemployment rate did fall to 5.2% and there were job gains in higher wage fields like manufacturing.

Works are went on strike in new york city, calling for $15 an hour and the right to unionize. the protests, organized bay group called fast-food forward, draw attention to low-wage jobs. according to the atlantic, borough of labor statistics estimate 7 out of 10 will be low wage fields. nationally, fast food workers earn $8.72 an hour, or a little more than $18,000 a year, according to the bls. to put that in perspective, poverty line for a family of four is over $23,000, according to the census...