- Capitalism is failing. People want a job with a decent wage – why is that so hard? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/24/capitalism-is-failing-workers-people-want-a-job-with-a-decent-wage-why-is-that-so-hard 652 comments politics
- EU deal links minimum wage to decent standard of living https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61719554 69 comments worldnews
- Take it from a millionaire: America's future hinges on a decent minimum wage https://www.newsweek.com/america-needs-decent-minimum-wage-1564936 52 comments politics
- The grotesque arguments against raising the minimum wage: when will we demand a decent society? http://underthemountainbunker.com/2013/02/17/the-grotesque-arguments-against-raising-the-minimum-wage-when-will-we-demand-a-decent-society/ 19 comments politics
- Poll: Nearly Half of Russians Favor Decent Wages Over Free Speech http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/news/article/poll-nearly-half-of-russians-favor-decent-wages-over-free-speech/525238.html 13 comments worldnews
- Anti-Acorn Smear Ads Are Funded By Group That Opposes Paying A Decent, Minimum Wage To Employees http://www.propublica.org/article/rotten-acorn-ad-funded-by-anti-minimum-wage-group/ 6 comments politics
- Rebuilding America: Ordinary Americans don't want handouts. What they want is honorable work, decent wages, and a government willing to help them contribute. http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/tomdispatch/2008/09/rebuilding-america-remaking-ourselves.html 3 comments politics
- 200 Members of Congress Vow Not to Interfere If UPS Workers Strike — “All workers, including UPS Teamsters, deserve fair wages, safe conditions, and decent benefits,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “If a bargaining agreement can’t be reached, we will not intervene if UPS workers strike.” https://www.commondreams.org/news/ups-teamsters-strike-congress 45 comments politics
- This pizza chain owner who pays $16 an hour says there's no labor shortage, just a shortage of businesses willing to pay a decent wage. https://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-chain-ceo-says-theres-no-labor-shortage-if-you-pay-well-2021-7 414 comments economy
- [KingofJUCO] What jabronis think minor leaguers getting paid minimum wage would do: •blow money on partying •buy luxury cars What minor leaguers getting paid minimum wage would do: •pay rent •afford decent food •cover training cost •focus on training in offseason instead of working https://twitter.com/kingofjuco/status/1494010994808397824?s=21 9 comments baseball
- This pizza chain owner who pays $16 an hour says there's no labor shortage, just a shortage of businesses willing to pay a decent wage https://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-chain-ceo-says-theres-no-labor-shortage-if-you-pay-well-2021-7 1073 comments economy
- Trump Didn’t Make This Economy. The low unemployment rate, decent wage growth, and solid corporate earnings are all artifacts of a long expansion, not signs that a very stable genius in the White House has unleashed American enterprise. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/trump-didnt-make-this-economy/606115/ 5 comments politics
- Trump Didn’t Make This Economy - The low unemployment rate, decent wage growth, and solid corporate earnings are all artifacts of a long expansion, not signs that a very stable genius in the White House has unleashed American enterprise. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/trump-didnt-make-this-economy/606115/?utm_source=feed 6 comments politics
- Trump Didn’t Make This Economy | The low unemployment rate, decent wage growth, and solid corporate earnings are all artifacts of a long expansion, not signs that a very stable genius in the White House has unleashed American enterprise. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/trump-didnt-make-this-economy/606115/ 168 comments politics
- $22/hr is average wage needed to afford a two-bedroom apartment in Canada: report - If you earn minimum wage and live in Vancouver, you would need to work 112 hours a week to afford a decent two-bedroom apartment, a new study says. https://globalnews.ca/news/5510783/minimum-wage-renting-canada/ 21 comments worldnews
- Black Friday retail workers are treated like yo-yos. They need scheduling protections - "Today and every day, our workers deserve a $15 an hour minimum wage, decent working conditions and the right to form a union." -Sen. Sanders http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-greenhouse-black-friday-fair-workweek-worker-schedules-retail-20171124-story.html 49 comments politics
- 30/f - How should a single expat woman save/invest? (student loans, no savings, making decent middle-income wage for the first time) https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/7abpii/30f_how_should_a_single_expat_woman_saveinvest/ 7 comments personalfinance
- Middle class, decent wage, decent net worth, but still feel hopeless against seemingly insurmountable upcoming expenses https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/78gfw2/middle_class_decent_wage_decent_net_worth_but/ 47 comments personalfinance
- If one player can make almost $30M a year I think we can pay every ref a decent wage so they can focus on the NFL only. https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2017/8/9/15041112/nfl-will-employ-full-time-referees-for-2017-and-beyond 4 comments nfl
- I have about 2.5 years left until I get my degree. Right now I'm broke. What do you think can be done to ensure getting a decent wage job the soonest from now? https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/4yf1nt/i_have_about_25_years_left_until_i_get_my_degree/ 22 comments compsci
- Sorry Joe Biden, But the Republicans ARE Our Enemies: "It's an insult to those of us who have been viciously targeted by the GOP, whether we be women, LGBT, people of color or working people trying to make a decent wage." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelangelo-signorile/sorry-joe-biden-but-the-r_b_8356922.html?utm_hp_ref=gay-voices 46 comments politics
- American Bridge launches Koch project. Tthe Kochs are leaders of a freakish ideological cult that is designed to rig the system to their benefit and to rob Americans of Social Security and decent wages. http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/american-bridge-koch-brothers-106711.html 91 comments politics
- Amazon.com processed 300 orders per second, 18,000 orders per minute, or 1,080,000 per hour today, or a total of 25,920,000 orders in a single day, but refuses to pay their workers a decent wage or improve working conditions, and are fighting paying any sales tax http://www.workerscompensation.com/compnewsnetwork/from-bobs-cluttered-desk/17904-perhaps-amazon-com-should-sell-health-insurance.html 20 comments politics
- Amazon.com processed 300 orders per second, 18,000 orders per minute, or 1,080,000 per hour today, or a total of 25,920,000 orders in a single day, but refuses to pay their workers a decent wage or improve working conditions, and are fighting paying any sales tax http://www.workerscompensation.com/compnewsnetwork/from-bobs-cluttered-desk/17904-perhaps-amazon-com-should-sell-health-insurance.html 15 comments technology
- "the change from starvation wages and starvation employment to living wages and sustained employment can... be made by... all employers ... It is greatly to their interest to do this because decent living... means the opening up to industry of the richest market which the world has known."FDR1933 http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odnirast.html 51 comments politics
- The Nation responds to HuffPo and Walmart criticism: Walmart today went on the attack against The Nation for its alleged hypocrisy over the pay of interns, as some kind of excuse for their own failure to pay tens of thousands of Americans a decent wage. http://www.thenation.com/article/175650/walmart-gets-desperate#axzz2bkhmj8dq 17 comments politics
- The Great Disconnect: "D.C. gridlock has given the political class an excuse to ignore the country’s most pressing problem — a lack of decent jobs at decent wages, with a deeper social crisis at work underneath — and pursue its own pet causes instead." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/opinion/sunday/douthat-the-great-disconnect.html?hp 7 comments politics
- CostCo shows that paying decent wages and treating your employees properly makes better business sense and leads to higher profits. http://occupydemocrats.com/costco-pays-well-and-soars-while-wal-mart-and-others-pay-peanuts-and-sink/ 619 comments politics
- Paul Krugman: "Economic justice and economic growth aren’t incompatible. America in the 1950s made the rich pay their fair share; it gave workers the power to bargain for decent wages and benefits; yet contrary to right-wing propaganda then and now, it prospered. And we can do that again." http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/krugman-the-twinkie-manifesto.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 77 comments politics
- Minimum-wage misconceptions - Contrary to right-wing propaganda, decent pay for workers helps the economy and boosts job creation http://www.salon.com/2012/04/27/minimum_wage_misconceptions/singleton/ 258 comments politics
- Now that the richest 1 percent have backed the rest of us into a corner — a corner without health care, decent wages and jobs that are not in danger of being outsourced — we have no choice but to organize and fight. http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/taking-back-us-for-the-other-99-percent/1195543 299 comments politics
- Look, we all know what the problem is. The middle class is being annihilated by the upper crust. We need comprehensive legislation that demands mega corporations pay their employees a decent wage. http://dannymendlow.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/an-idea/ 11 comments politics
- The American working class collectively owes nearly $1 trillion in student loan debt. Decent employment, however, is scarce, with one opening for every five job seekers. Wages are sinking even among sectors that required a highly skilled workforce. http://wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/loan-m11.shtml 3 comments politics
- The college wage premium, after rising sharply in the 80s and 90s, has stagnated lately. How we have a decent society if and when even highly educated workers can’t command a middle-class income? http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/falling-demand-for-brains/ 7 comments business
- 43.6 million Americans are now receiving food stamps. If greedy ass employers would pay a decent wage instead of buying more shit they don't need, these people could buy food. http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/02/the_welfare_state_of_the_union.html 11 comments politics
- The right to decent housing, a job that pays a living wage, health care, and peace could all be easily achieved in the United States if the economy were arranged with this purpose in mind. Sadly, it is not. http://www.laprogressive.com/economic-equality/permanent-housing-collapse/ 4 comments politics
- "We corporate gods laugh in the face of your puny pleas for, um, whatever the hell it is people like you plead for. Decent wages? Health care? A tolerable ending to 'Lost'? Whatever. I can barely even hear you from way up hear on my gilded throne of sticky, glorious evil. It's the American dream." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/04/02/notes040210.dtl 3 comments politics
- The low wages and scheduling problems create massive turnover, but Wal-Mart has concluded that hiring and training a steady stream of new associates is cheaper than keeping the ones they have by paying decent wages and opening careers to promotion and advancement. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-wal-mart16-2009aug16,0,7912684.story 3 comments politics