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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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