http://www.metafilter.com/tags/workingpoor Posts tagged with 'workingpoor' at MetaFilter. Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:47:50 -0800 Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:47:50 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/37452/Guaranteeing%2Da%2DRight%2Dto%2Da%2DJob%2Dat%2Da%2DLiving%2DWage <small>Our nation so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrial population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied working men and women a fair day's pay for a fair day's work . - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937</small><br><br><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/chapters/1675_ch1.pdf" title="Why a Right to a Job at a Living Wage ?">Chapter 1 [PDF]</a> of <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1675_reg.html" title="Why every American should have the right to a job at a living wage">Ending Poverty as We Know It - Guaranteeing a Right to a Job at a Living Wage</a>. Here is a <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/authors/1675_qa.html" title="Q: You propose a constitutional amendment guaranteeing every person the right to a job at a living wage. How is this better than advocating for another increase in the minimum wage? A: I think this proposal is better in at least three ways. First, it creates the goal of a living wage, not a minimum wage. The minimum wage is roughly half what a living wage would be. Under this approach, people are entitled to a living wage. Second, it links the right to a living wage with the right to a job. A right to a living wage is no good if you don't have a job that pays it. This guarantees everyone who wants to work the opportunity to do so. Third, by putting both the right to a living wage and the right to a job into the constitution it sets up a permanent method for enforcing these rights. It now literally takes an act of congress to raise the pitifully low minimum wage. If these rights are placed into our constitution, there would be many ways to make sure they are met.">Q&amp;A with William Quigley</a>, its author. </small> tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.37452 Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:47:50 -0800 civilrights employment poverty workingpoor y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/29912/The%2Dworking%2Dpoor <a href="http://www.thebetrayalofwork.org/inside.htm">the working poor</a> A new book by Beth Shulman called The Betrayal of Work” argues that hard work is just not cutting it in America anymore. According to Shulman, even in the go-go ’90s one out of every four American workers made less than $8.70 an hour, an income equal to the government’s poverty level for a family of four. Many, if not most, of these workers have no health care, sick pay or retirement provisions. more inside..... tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.29912 Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:27:18 -0800 bethshulman betrayal income poverty work workingpoor jbou