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Pharoah Bloomberg: Paying Workers Enough to Live Is 'Communism'

Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet. May 18, 2012.

New York's billionaire mayor is so opposed to a tiny raise for workers at companies that get public money that he's vowed to sue. What's the deal with living wage laws anyway?

Good News for Low-Paid Home Health Care Workers: Minimum Wage and Overtime Pay On the Way

R. M. Arrieta, In These Times. December 18, 2011.

New regulations would give nearly 2 million home-care workers, most of whom are women and many women of color, wage and hour protections for the first time.

Are Students the New Indentured Servants?

Jeffrey J. Williams, Dissent Magazine. February 5, 2009.

College student-loan debt has revived the spirit of indenture for a sizable proportion of contemporary Americans.

If everyone agrees the religious right is “nuts,” can liberals finally catch a break?

Joshua Holland, October 17, 2006.

I’m just looking for some equality here …

“Everything goes up but our paychecks\": Talking to Real People Who Live on the Minimum Wage

Sarah Jaffe, December 31, 1969.


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