This Week in Poverty: Wage Theft in the City of Millionaires - The Nation. (blog)

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This Week in Poverty: Wage Theft in the City of Millionaires
The Nation. (blog)
Low-wage workers, on the other hand, aren't faring too well in the city. In fact, a recent report from Houston Interfaith Worker Justice (HIWJ) estimates that low-wage workers lose $753.2 million annually due to wage theft. Wage theft can occur in many ...

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This Week in Poverty: Wage Theft in the City of Millionaires - Democratic Underground

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This Week in Poverty: Wage Theft in the City of Millionaires
Democratic Underground
Low-wage workers, on the other hand, aren't faring too well in the city. In fact, a recent report from Houston Interfaith Worker Justice (HIWJ) estimates that low-wage workers lose $753.2 million annually due to wage theft. Wage theft can occur in many ...

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Bring Back "The Mardi Gras 10" in South Florida - Huffington Post (blog)

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Bring Back "The Mardi Gras 10" in South Florida
Huffington Post (blog)
Together we must tell this industry that casino workers must be treated with the highest respect, beginning with Mardi Gras. When two members of our community -- an Episcopal priest and the director of South Florida Interfaith Worker Justice -- sought ...

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Public forum hosted by Wichita group 'We the People of Kansas' - Kansas.com

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Public forum hosted by Wichita group 'We the People of Kansas'
Kansas.com
Panelists include Russell Arben Fox, associate professor of political science at Friends University; Louis Goseland, organizing director of Sunflower Community Action; David Hansen, director of Interfaith Workers Justice Kansas, and Davis Merritt, ...

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'Just Dining' guide looks at Madison restaurants from workers' point of view - Isthmus Daily Page

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'Just Dining' guide looks at Madison restaurants from workers' point of view
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The "Just Dining" guide will inform customers and workers about downtown restaurant wages, hours and working conditions. The project is being carried out by the Workers' Rights Center and the Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice.

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In the Spirit: A different kind of restaurant guide - Wisconsin State Journal

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In the Spirit: A different kind of restaurant guide
Wisconsin State Journal
Such places get a poor reputation among workers, but customers may never find out, she said. Two Madison organizations have undertaken a project that could change that. The Interfaith Coalition for Worker Justice and the Workers' Rights Center are ...

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Occupy Wall Street's May Day in New York - The Atlantic

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Occupy Wall Street's May Day in New York
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Rain slowed things down, and it wasn't until midday Tuesday that Manhattan's Bryant Park grew packed as demonstrators organized by Interfaith Workers Justice to support immigrants' rights began a march through midtown, stopping to picket businesses ...
Trinity Wall Street hosts May Day teach-inEpiscopal News Service

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Cambodia Garment Worker Justice - PBS

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Cambodia Garment Worker Justice
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FEMALE GARMENT WORKER: Previously, we saw a lot of strikes, but those haven't happened recently in our factory because there are a lot of newcomers. DAVID SCHILLING (Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility): The minimum wage clearly is not ...

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Court workers wear red all over the country - Cebu Daily News

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Court workers wear red all over the country
Cebu Daily News
Supporters of Chief Justice Renato Corona hold slogans during the Inter-faith mass and send-off at the Supreme Court grounds, Manila on Tuesday. Corona will testify at the impeachment trial court at the Senate on his alleged dollar accounts.

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Trio honored by Interfaith Housing Center - Deerfield Review

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Trio honored by Interfaith Housing Center
Deerfield Review
BY PAT KROCHMAL pkrochmal@pioneerlocal.com May 21, 2012 7:58PM Butler Sharpe, of Riverwoods, and Eve and Sherman Beverly, of Deerfield have won the Rayna & Marvin Miller Housing Justice Award. | Brian O'Mahoney~for Sun-Times Media Eve and Sherman ...

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