Rich Keep Getting Richer

September 11, 2013

The top one percent of wage earners now account for 19.3 percent of the nation’s household income, the highest percentage in more than 100 years, according to economists at the University of California, Berkeley and the Paris School of Economics at Oxford University.

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Waffle House Workers Strike for Fair Pay and Better Working Conditions

Waffle House workers in Conyers, Georgia, are now on their third day of striking over what they call the company’s unfair policies. Led by the Union of Southern Service Workers (USSW), Waffle House employees are demanding an end to the mandatory “meal credit” deductions from their paychecks, along with better wages and improved working conditions.