At typical political fundraising dinners, enormous sums of money are funneled toward a candidate or cause, and not, perhaps, to the waitstaff bustling around with trays of food and drinks. Looking to make those typically underpaid workers the star of an event, One Fair Wage — an advocacy group representing …
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Work sucks, and the pay is too low. This is almost a universal constant in America, but for many workers at some of the biggest food service and retail companies in the U.S., it’s a matter of corporate policy to pay people well below a living wage, according to a …
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Americans want a $15-per-hour minimum wage. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Thursday found 59 recent of the nation supports the long-debated wage hike Democrats are trying to work into the coronavirus spending bill. Only 34 percent oppose it. But if we know one thing about Republicans, it’s that they’re not going …
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The dust is settling on the 2020 election, and all eyes are understandably focused on the presidential result — which at last check had President-Elect Joe Biden beating Donald Trump by more than 5 million votes and on track to record a 306-232 victory in the electoral college. But some …
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