Thieves should take lessons
from those that rip-off the worker in America. Quite an amazing figure in regard to the good-old -fashioned thief and the $ amount they steal each year in comparison to the figure American workers are having stolen from their paychecks:
in the United States in 2012, there were 292,074 robberies of all kinds, including bank robberies, residential robberies, convenience store and gas station robberies, and street robberies. The total value of the property taken in those crimes was $340,850,358. Those are not the robberies that were solved; those are all the robberies that were reported to the police, anywhere in the nation. [...] U.S. DOL recovered $280 million from wage and hour violators.
State departments of labor in 44 states recovered $172 million.
State attorneys general in 45 states recovered $14 million.
Private attorneys recovered $467 million in wage and hour class action lawsuits.
We have not been able to determine how much more was recovered for wage theft victims by six state departments of labor (Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Indiana, Louisiana, and Vermont) and five attorneys general (Arizona, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Oklahoma), so the 2012 total is greater than $933 million.(from wage theft)
http://www.dailykos.com/
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