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“I don’t see how a person making minimum wage can ever become financially independent. It’s basically impossible.” It’s far from impossible. It’s just a matter of priorities. Read more

The Walton (Walmart) heirs now have as much wealth as up to 40 percent of all Americans combined, and Walmart’s sales have been slowing down. What does the first fact have to do with the second? The top 1 percent now rakes in 20 percent of the nation’s income and holds one-third of the country’s […]

The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United’s newly formed group of business owners to lobby in support of minimum wage increases met Wednesday with representatives to address a variety of issues that face their workers. The group, called RAISE — Restaurants Advancing Industry Standards in Employment — is an alternative to the National Restaurant Association, which has […]

House Democrats are gathering support behind a proposal to raise the minimum wage for hourly and tipped workers. Reps. George Miller (D-Calif.) and Donna Edwards (D-Md.) unveiled a new association of restaurant owners who are backing legislation to gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour and boost the $2.13 hourly wage in annual […]

America’s highest-paid CEO last year, John Hammergren of McKesson Corp., received compensation of over $131 million. That is the equivalent of about $63,000 per hour, or $10,000 more than the annual median household income in the United States. Meanwhile, some of this country’s lowest-paid workers—those on minimum wage—made just $15,080 annually at $7.25 per hour. […]

By Barbara Raab They work for some of the biggest businesses in the United States, yet they are among the country’s lowest-paid workers. On Thursday, fast-food workers staged walkouts at McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell and other restaurants in New York City to call attention to their plight. Organizers scheduled the job actions to commemorate […]