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Our Childcare Workers Are Going Hungry. I Was One of Them.

February 14, 2022

By BriTanya Bays

We’ve established many times over that our child care workers are the engines that support a healthy economy. Yet, we’re not willing to pay them a living wage.

This is What it Means for Biden to Have My Back

January 15, 2021

By Darryl Lorenzo Wellington

Coming off a disastrous four years of Donald Trump, there are a lot of competing priorities for the new Biden administration. I speak from the perspective of someone who welcomes…

Striking hotel workers: ‘One job should be enough’

November 19, 2018

By Catherine Bugayong

In October, hotel workers from across the country began a strike demanding higher wages, better healthcare, job stability and a host of other concerns. Several of them came to visit…

The hourly reality of life on a ‘living wage’

October 24, 2018

By Catherine Bugayong

I am one of the 7.6 million Americans who has to work multiple jobs. I work three jobs so that I can meet my living expenses, pay bills, have health…

For Code Crew founders, paying a living wage is the right thing to do

November 28, 2017

By Melonee Gaines

The nonprofit trains youth of color to be the next generation of techies and practices the economic justice MLK preached

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