A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...

Wall Streeters pocketed more in bonuses than the paychecks of all of the 1,085,000 Americans who work full-time at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.

HuffPo compares the realities people at the lower end of the labor market face with Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) rhetoric about the joys of making $7.25 per hour as a fry chef or a dishwasher.

A new study finds that we're subsidizing banks' profits by keeping their low-wage workforce out of poverty.

This isn’t how a 'free market' is supposed to work.

A perfect example of a private company using the social safety net to increase their bottom line.

A new study says half of fast food workers are on public assistance programs that spend $243 billion each year on the working poor.