- Back in 2008, Obama campaigned to have a $9.50 per hour minimum wage by 2011. Now he's settling for $9.00 by 2015! ... How can leaders of poverty groups and unions accept this back-of-the-hand response to the plight of thirty million workers who make less today than what workers made 45 years ago in 1968, inflation adjusted?
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Is $9.00 an hour a livable wage? (photo: unknown)
Feb 16, 2013 | How could Barack Obama say, in his State of the Union speech, “let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on earth no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour”?
Back in 2008, Obama campaigned to have a $9.50 per hour minimum wage by 2011. Now he’s settling for $9.00 by 2015! Going backward into the future is the price that poverty groups and labor unions are paying by giving Mr. Obama a free ride last year on this moral imperative. How can leaders of poverty groups and unions accept this back-of-the-hand response to the plight of thirty million workers who make less today than what workers made 45 years ago in 1968, inflation adjusted?
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Exposed: How Whole Foods and the Biggest Organic Foods Distributor Are Screwing Workers, Ronnie Cummins, Dave Murphy, AlterNet
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