Tag: minimum wage
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Nation & World
The American dream costs more than $29,000 a year
Journalist Rick Wartzman talks about his new book, “Still Broke: Walmart’s Remarkable Transformation and the Limits of Socially Conscious Capitalism.”
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Nation & World
The costs of inequality: Increasingly, it’s the rich and the rest
Increasingly, economic and political inequality in America is interlaced, analysts say, leaving many more people poorer and voiceless. But there are policy changes that could help change that.
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Nation & World
Handmade horrors
A new study has documented “slavelike” conditions in India’s handmade carpet industry, the largest single source of carpets sold in some of the most well-known U.S. retailers.