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Working Poor

inanna

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5. One of my favorite FDR quotes:

Reply to AwakeAtLast (Reply #3)

Sat Jun 4, 2016, 09:16 PM

Jun 2016

“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.”

(1933, Statement on National Industrial Recovery Act)

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America’s new working poor — in manufacturing [View all] inanna May 2016 OP

It's every place. It's in construction too. rusty quoin May 2016 #1

K & R for visibility of this w0nderer Jun 2016 #2

If your employees are paid so little AwakeAtLast Jun 2016 #3

in effect gov support for companies w0nderer Jun 2016 #4

One of my favorite FDR quotes: inanna Jun 2016 #5

That would encompass a lot of our corporations AwakeAtLast Jun 2016 #6