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The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009. Several states have a higher minimum, but a predictable few, including Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Alabama, are stuck at that low minimum.
WASHINGTON—When it comes to deciding where to put their money, 100 of the nation’s richest corporations have pretty blatant priorities: Billions for stock buybacks for corporate honchos and Wall Street financiers. Pennies for workers’ pay.
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 an hour since 2009. Several states have a higher minimum, but a predictable few, including Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, South
What would happen if you went to your morning coffee shop to find no one there? Waited for a bus to find no dirver, no bus? Managed to get to work to find no coworkers? Wandered to lunch to find no one serving? Tried to stop at a supermarket heading home to find no one working and no food available? Managed home to sort out a mess? We depend on workers but we don’t want to pay them. We agree with their labor actions but don’t want to manage inconvenience. We thought about Labor Day, but we don’t think about workers. When will we raise the federal minimum wage.
By Sarah Anderson ( Inequality.org ) - In response to strikes and union organizing drives, corporate leaders routinely insist that …