Low-Wage Jobs Are California’s Achilles’ Heel

Low-Wage Jobs Are California’s Achilles’ Heel Annette Bernhardt: The inequality debate often focuses on globalization and new technology, but we know that the decline of unions and the falling real value of the minimum wage have also played critical roles. READ HERE SHARED FROM

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