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Protesters March Outside Of GOP Debate At UH

February 27, 2016 Adam Bennett, www.khou.com ,
By Adam Bennett for KHOU 11 News - HOUSTON - Hundreds of protesters gathered at the University of Houston Thursday to voice their opinions ahead of the Republican presidential debate. Those protesting marched near the Opera Center wanting to make their message loud and clear to the candidates. Some of the big issues regarded immigration and voters' rights and jobs. Several signs pushed for a raise of minimum wage to $15 an hour.

Blacks, Low-Wage Employment And The Fight For $15

October 29, 2015 Marc Bayard, www.ebony.com , ,
By Marc Bayard for Ebony - Earlier this month Terrence Wise, a 36-year old second-generation African American fast-food worker, introduced President Barack Obama at the White House Summit on Worker Voice. Wise, a native of Kansas City, Missouri and father of three, has worked in the fast food industry for 20 years. Currently, he works at both McDonalds and Burger King -- seven days a week. He is not “Lovin’ It” and he does not “Have It His Way” at either of these low-wage establishments. Instead, as he told President Obama about his family life, “We work hard every day, but wages are so low we skip meals.”

Will The Fight For $15 Now Fight For Unions?

October 13, 2015 David Moberg, www.inthesetimes.com ,
By David Moberg for In These Times - It’s a safe bet that most working people would like a pay raise. They are also often reluctant to ask for one, let alone demand a doubling of their hourly rates. Low-wage Americans—the 42 percent of workers making less than $15 an hour—know all too well that they don’t just want more; they need more simply to survive at the lowliest version of the American standard of living. Increasingly, they are pressing their demands more forcefully, possibly inventing a new form of unionism as they persevere, organizers suggest.

$15 An Hour NOW – Not 5 To 7 Years From Now

July 4, 2015 C. Robert Gibson, www.occupy.com , , , ,
By C. Robert Gibson in Occupy - So, to be clear, $15 an hour now is neither an unreasonable nor irrational demand. By contrast, the default argument against increasing the minimum wage is the alleged harm it will do to businesses. This can be negated by simply restructuring existing corporate entitlement programs already in place. According to a 2014 report by Good Jobs First, just 965 corporations have received over 75 percent of all state business subsidies. Fortune 500 companies – by definition the most successful and profitable in the world – received $63 billion in taxpayer handouts. Good Jobs First found that out of 441,000 entitlement programs (277,000 state and local; 164,000 federal), those 965 corporations received a total of 25,000 entitlements worth $110 billion through various subsidiary corporations.

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