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Demeter

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5. Why Don't We Pay People Enough? 8 Facts About America's Struggling Working People

Sun Feb 5, 2012, 11:05 PM

Feb 2012

http://www.alternet.org/story/153856/why_don%27t_we_pay_people_enough_8_facts_about_america%27s_struggling_working_people?page=entire

“Our nation, so richly endowed with natural resources and with a capable and industrious population, should be able to devise ways and means of insuring to all our able-bodied men and women, a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work.” Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1937

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