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  • Pandemic Timeline
    Unsanitized: Paying Restaurants to Close Is a Public Health Imperative
    October 26, 2020
    | David Dayen

    If you close just bars and restaurants you’ve gone a surprisingly long way to eliminating spread, and minimizing the events that allow the virus to run rampant.

  • Inequality
    Pitting Poor Against Poorer in the Fight for Tips
    October 26, 2015
    | Cathy O’Neil
    A change in policy by one group of New York City-based restaurants might, in its small way, be the beginning of a revolution in how we pay service workers in America.
  • "Hard to Stomach"
    May 14, 2014
    | Mark Fiore
    Cartoonist Mark Fiore skewers some of the myths the national Restaurant Association has manufactured over the years, especially that of well-paid, happy workers serving you each time you eat out.
  • We Asked, You Answered: Working in Restaurants
    April 15, 2014
    | Karin Kamp
    What’s wrong with the way restaurant workers are treated and compensated? Hundreds of people with experience in the food industry wrote to Bill with their thoughts.
  • Morning Reads: "Could We Become Mississippi?"; Vermont Moving Toward Single-Payer Health
    April 10, 2014
    A roundup of some of the stories we're reading at Moyers & Company HQ...
  • Highlights: All Work and No Pay
    April 8, 2014
    | Karin Kamp
    Watch clips from Bill's interview with the activist fighting the National Restaurant Association to get wages beyond their current level of $2.13 per hour.
  • Your Turn: Working in Restaurants
    April 3, 2014
    Tell us what you think: What’s wrong with the way restaurant workers are treated and compensated?
  • 12 Fast Facts About the Fast Food Strike
    December 5, 2013
    | Richard Eskow
    Workers at fast food restaurants nationwide went on strike Thursday and demanded higher pay and better working conditions.
  • Taming Capitalism Run Wild
    August 9, 2013 | Moyers & Company
    Economist Richard Wolff talks about battling rampant capitalism and fighting for economic justice.
  • The Minimum Wage Doesn't Apply to Everyone
    July 26, 2013
    | John Light
    Nearly two million working Americans make even less than the minimum because of various exemptions.


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