David Rolf Quotes
When families can afford the basics, they can reinvest in their communities, and higher wages means a broader consumer base for businesses.
Income inequality and wage stagnation finally took their place among the principal moral issues of our time.
Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.
The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs (<$9.24/hr) are held by adults. A quarter are adults over 40. Another quarter are moms raising kids.
The free market hasn't done a very good job "figuring out" how to pay workers enough. If it was solely up to the market, the people with the least power would be paid pennies ... or less.
We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.
Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.
Annual earnings in the fast-food industry are well below the income needed for self-sufficiency, and fast-food industry jobs are also much less likely than other jobs to provide health benefits.
The fast-food industry is notorious for employing millions of Americans at poverty wages.
A September 2015 poll found that, by a 3-1 margin, voters are more likely to support political candidates who favor raising the minimum wage.