Millions can’t afford
to shop at their
own workplaces

Sign of the season: Black Friday, which was followed by cyber Monday.
THE SIGNS OF the season – the shopping season, that is – are unmistakable everywhere.
From Black Friday extensions back to “Blue Thursday” and forward to “Cyber Monday,” Americans are being exhorted and cajoled by every means possible to spend as if there is no tomorrow.
The shameful truth, however, is that for a huge number of those serving the shopping hordes, there is no “tomorrow” – except one of bleak, minimum-wage survival.
What makes it worse is that it need not be this way at all. Wherever the electorate is asked, voters overwhelmingly approve raising the minimum wage.
It is an issue that garners bi-partisan support, except amongst certain politicians in hock to retail and fast-food giants. It’s a national disgrace, that could so easily be changed.
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