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Twitter users expressed support for the Dec. 5 protests around the country for fast food workers. “All our wages will rise,” said one tweet. Fifty-two percent of the families of fast food workers receive public assistance, according to recent research.
Dee Jay Beard earns slightly less than the average bookkeeper and is bursting with business. She could probably ask for more, but so many of her clients are small businesses that suffered in the economic downturn that she’s kept her fees in check.
On April 9 we mark Equal Pay Day, a time for spurring the modernization of the Equal Pay Act. But let’s not stop there. Let’s also attack the problems of low-paid work and volatile scheduling that hold back millions of female workers.
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(WOMENSENEWS)–
If you’re working at Burger King, 22, and have three children, you don’t make enough. You’re part of a low-wage work force that is predominantly female and–as of a few months ago–starting to protest.