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Showing Original Post only (View all)Fast-Food Workers Photograph What Life Is Like When You Make Less Than $15 an Hour [View all]
Some days, Mona Lee, 20, starts work at McDonalds in Kansas City, Missouri, at 6 a.m., ends her shift at 1 p.m., and then immediately starts another shift at Sonic, which ends at 8 p.m. But since both jobs pay just $7.25 an hour, she still often doesnt earn enough money to pay for basic expenses.
I don't understand how I can work at two jobs and not have enough money to put food in the house, she said. We need to be able to live.
Lee is one of the thousands of workers around the world whove joined Fight for $15, a movement calling for higher pay for fast-food workers and their right to unionize. She is also one of 16 workers affiliated with the local labor organization Stand Up KC whove photographed their daily lives to help promote the cause. An exhibit of those photographs, I, Too, Am America, is on display at Kansas Citys Talk Shop Gallery through May 31.
I don't understand how I can work at two jobs and not have enough money to put food in the house, she said. We need to be able to live.
Lee is one of the thousands of workers around the world whove joined Fight for $15, a movement calling for higher pay for fast-food workers and their right to unionize. She is also one of 16 workers affiliated with the local labor organization Stand Up KC whove photographed their daily lives to help promote the cause. An exhibit of those photographs, I, Too, Am America, is on display at Kansas Citys Talk Shop Gallery through May 31.
Dallas Winters, Church's Chicken, Eviction.
Casara Martin, Burger King, Three generations, one room.
Lindsey Zimmerman, Subway, Empty, No money, no food.
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Fast-Food Workers Photograph What Life Is Like When You Make Less Than $15 an Hour [View all]
Agschmid
May 2015
OP
Probably never going to have kids, so for me personally it wasn't challenging...
Agschmid
May 2015
#10
The rich psychopaths think of us as nonhuman and expendable. The rich suck...........
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#14
We are nothing but lifetimes to be harvested 'till we can't produce any more assets.
NBachers
May 2015
#21
We are more than that. They, the-rich-abusive-controller-bullies, have us believing we are worthless
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#28
We need a communist revolution. It happened in Russia in 1917, France in 1789, and England in 1649.
MillennialDem
May 2015
#43
We need a revolution of equality, justice, respect and uplift for all, not some political ideology.
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#45
Sadly for most, that word comes with a twisted bastardized negative alternate meaning.
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#60
Not a lot of people think that way and your view of the rich is way off
taught_me_patience
May 2015
#59
The system with which this world functions was created by the rich ruling elite.
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#63
True, except republicans have to use tweezers and a magnifying glass. (nm)
Elwood P Dowd
May 2015
#24
Oh, but they just need to "work harder and develop more marketable skills."
Lizzie Poppet
May 2015
#30
If one opposes Government Programs like SNAP, Medicare, and other programs for the poor....
LynneSin
May 2015
#33
This shouldn't be happening in America but will continue unless we make some drastic
rhett o rick
May 2015
#35
This is also the result of the Democratic Party failing to protect the people from the oligarchs
AZ Progressive
May 2015
#37
Sadly some people want life to be easy so they think that Republcons are bad
rhett o rick
May 2015
#38
I don't entirely agree. Capitalism and it's innate quest for power will also kill the wealthy.
rhett o rick
May 2015
#53
The problem is that capitalism will grow to the point that it self destructs.
rhett o rick
May 2015
#52
I'm not convinced it would. Bear in mind I mean classic Adam Smith Capitalism.
raouldukelives
May 2015
#71
I don't think Adam Smith could recognize how greed would ruin his capitalism. I support controling
rhett o rick
May 2015
#72
As he imagined it, it was. But what you say is certainly true. Greed rewrote the rules.
raouldukelives
May 2015
#81
You mean if they raise the pitchers mound is it still baseball? I am afraid so. nm
rhett o rick
May 2015
#82
Sort of. More like chess where you aren't allowed to put your opponents king in check.
raouldukelives
May 2015
#83
Serious Question: If thats the case, wouldn't inequality still exsist, just at different salaries?
Joe the Revelator
May 2015
#87
Look at that refrigerator! With amenities like that, our poor truly are the envy of the world!
Ed Suspicious
May 2015
#69