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Category: Workers

Posted inPoverty

How a rich developer got taxpayers to underwrite his fancy hotel project

by Wendi C. Thomas September 20, 2017June 2, 2022
Posted inLiving Wage, Poverty, Workers

Census: 2016 poverty rates rise for blacks, fall for whites and Latinos in Memphis

by Wendi C. Thomas September 14, 2017June 2, 2022
Posted inBlack Lives Matter, Democracy, Economic Justice, Poverty, Workers

20 years as a home healthcare worker, making $9 an hour

by Andrea Morales September 5, 2017June 2, 2022
Posted inBlack Lives Matter, Economic Justice, Workers

For Labor Day: 6 truths MLK dropped on jobs and wages #YepHeSaidIt

by MLK50 Memphis September 4, 2017June 2, 2022
Posted inDemocracy, Economic Justice, Workers

Nonprofit Bakery to Experiment with a Living Wage

by Martha Park September 4, 2017June 2, 2022
Posted inBlack Lives Matter

Three ways the black church can practice economic justice

by Rev. Earle J. Fisher August 17, 2017June 2, 2022
Posted inEconomic Justice, Martin Luther King, Workers

The injustice of a Memphis economy built on low-wage jobs

by Tom Jones June 1, 2017June 2, 2022
Posted inEconomic Justice

Selling a state: The making of Tennessee Inc.

by Micaela Watts May 9, 2017June 2, 2022

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