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fromTruthout
5 days ago

Dollar Store Workers' Fight Shows How to Build Power Even Without a Union

'I said, 'No offense, but I only get paid one time, and that is to be a stocker,' said Williams, who today makes $11.50 an hour filling shelves with diapers, ramen and discount shampoo at a New Orleans store. Some months, he said, he can't make rent. 'So, sorry, I'm not about to put my life on the line,' he told his colleague.
US news
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

NYC security guards making a fraction of a livable wage, study finds | amNewYork

Many New York City security guards earn low wages, often below the living wage, with limited benefits and high financial insecurity despite predominantly full-time work.
Film
fromThe New Yorker
1 month ago

Reexamining the American Dream in "The Last Carnival"

Immigrant carnival workers live in cramped trailers, work twelve-hour days for three dollars an hour, and doubt the American Dream amid family separation.
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