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How One Late Paycheck Messed Up My Life

December 4, 2017

By Sharisse Tracey

I know at a deep level that my family lived paycheck to paycheck. A check comes in. We pay our bills. We have no savings to speak of. But it…

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

May Day, May Day! Immigrant workers and low-wage workers unite

April 28, 2017

By Micaela Watts

Struggle to survive on poverty wages builds solidarity among workers

Immigrant Rights Are Workers Rights

April 25, 2017

By Thomas Kennedy

Bad policies that harm working Americans continue to chip away at our aspirations to strive.

A Worker’s Take On The New Overtime Proposal

July 6, 2015

By Wendi C. Thomas

Originally posted on Talk Poverty and The Nation. As a manager for a national auto supply chain, Lora McCrary puts in between 50 and 70 hours a week remodeling stores…

Putting good jobs at top of US policy agenda

April 27, 2015

By Allie Carter

This post originally appeared here.  Even though she’s worked at the Checkers in Lincoln Park for four years, Mya Hill is still paid only $8.15 an hour – Michigan’s minimum…

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