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Low-wage workers seek Obama’s help
Federal contractors range from the wealthy to the barely paid. This week the Obama administration plans to ask Congress to amend the law so the government will not have to reimburse companies almost $1 million for the salaries of individual executives …
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Low-wage workers picket outside federal buildings
Federal contract employees at some of the nation’s best-known landmarks walked off their jobs Tuesday during a day of protests over low wages and lack of benefits. The day-long strike was organized by a group called Good Jobs Nation on …
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Norton Pledges Support for Federal Contract Workers
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) spoke today at a Congressional Progressive Caucus press conference featuring low-wage D.C. residents and other low-wage workers, to expose low wages facilitated by the federal government and to announce a study, unveiled …
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U.S. taxpayers employ more low-wage workers than Wal-Mart, McDonald’s combined
Washington Post Federal taxpayers employ more low-wage workers than Wal-Mart and McDonald’s combined, a new study calculates. The report from a public policy organization Demos, set to be released Wednesday, estimates that taxpayer dollars fund nearly 2 million private-sector jobs that …
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Rally, report urge higher wages for service workers in federal facilities
Washington Post Even with a freeze on basic pay rates and unpaid leave days and repeated attacks on the federal workforce, being a federal employee means you have a good, though as of late, a less-lucrative job.… [who] earn wages too …
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Federal Government Nation’s Biggest Creator of Low-Wage Jobs
Huffington Post The event was the kickoff for a new organizing initiative called Good Jobs Nation, a project that I have been working on with a coalition of faith, community and labor organizations. There was a report released by Demos, which …
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