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Does Obamacare Have an Affordability Glitch?
As the title suggests, the text of the Affordable Care Acts states explicitly that medium-sized and large employers — or those companies that employ 50 or more workers — must offer “affordable”...
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Here’s Why Wal-Mart Workers are Gearing Up for Another Demonstration
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/neontommy/ Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) workers organized under union-backed activist group OUR Walmart are planning another day of protest Thursday. Low-wage workers and...
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Raising the Minimum Wage: Reality or Just a Pipe Dream?
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76657755@N04/ If you worked 40 hours a week for 52 weeks (2,080 hours) while earning the federal minimum wage ($7.25 per hour), you would earn a pretax income of...
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Another Battle Is Waged in the Fight for $15
source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/ Another battle was fought in the Fight for $15 on Thursday. Low-wage workers, mostly in the fast-food industry, and their supporters took to the...
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5 Ways Low-Wage Americans Face Increased Economic Hardship
Source: Stock.xchng The difference between being poor and being in poverty can seem fairly arbitrary to those at the bottom of the wealth and income ladder. The Census Bureau calculates that there are...
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Romney Wants GOP to Be the Party of Jobs and a Minimum Wage Hike
Acknowledging that many in his party feel otherwise, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said in a Thursday morning interview on MSNBC, “I think we ought to raise it,” referring to the...
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Obama Says the U.S. Economic ‘Resurgence Is Real,’ But Is He Right?
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images “As 2014 comes to an end, we can enter the New Year with new confidence that America is making significant strides where it counts.” — President Barack Obama, Weekly...
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This Is Why Washington Will Keep Ignoring Minimum Wage
Source: Thinkstock Republican Senator and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has indicated that the question of increasing the federal minimum wage has taken up too much of the Senate’s time....
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Here’s How $3 Billion Is Stolen From American Workers Each Year
Source: Thinkstock Echoing the results of previous studies, the Economic Policy Institute recently noted that wage theft has reached “epidemic” levels in the United States, with millions of American...
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