Who Deserves a Living Wage

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             Barbara Ehrenreich, in her book Nickel and Dimed , stated some startling statistics on just who is really working for less than a living wage, while defining what a living wage is: "The Economic Policy Institute recently reviewed dozens of studies of what constitutes a 'living wage' and came up with an average figure of $30,000 a year for a family of one adult and two children, which amounts to a wage of $14 an hour...The shocking thing is that the majority of American workers, about 60 percent, earn less than $14 an hour." (Pp. 213) If this is truly indicativ
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