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Minimum Wage

Business

The Fight for Fifteen at an Orlando McDonald's

For some workers, the pandemic brought new meaning to a nationwide movement to raise the minimum wage.

Eleni Schirmer New Yorker Feb 2021 30min Permalink

Business

The CEO Paying Everyone $70,000 Salaries Has Something to Hide

Thirty-year-old payment processing CEO Dan Price made an audacious decision and was rewarded with viral stardom. But what were his real motivations?

Karen Weise Bloomberg Businessweek Dec 2015 15min Permalink

Business

For Hardee’s Workers, It’s Not a Parable, It’s a Job

Fast food used to be a transitional, temporary work. In Creston, Iowa, it has become a career.

Anne Hull Washington Post Mar 2015 10min Permalink

Politics

Can Moral Mondays Produce Victorious Tuesdays?

North Carolina’s protest movement has galvanized the state’s progressives, but couldn’t stop 2014’s Republican tide. Its leaders say they’re just getting started.

Barry Yeoman The American Prospect Jan 2015 25min Permalink

Dignity

Inside the fast-food labor protests.

William Finnegan New Yorker Sep 2014 30min Permalink

Business

The Minimum Wage Worker Strikes Back

On the fast food workers of St. Louis.

Sarah Kendzior Medium Apr 2014 20min Permalink

Politics

Home of the Whopper

Fast-food workers, the minimum wage, and a future served by robot labor.

Thomas Frank Harper's Nov 2013 15min Permalink