Worker strikes and public protests outside fast food restaurant chains are kicking off across the country on Thursday as low-wage employees in the industry are demanding a federal living wage of $15 an hour.
Organizers for the day’s events include the groups , and :
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Those groups are being supported by various local, regional and national workers’ rights groups and labor organizations who all agree that low wages are keeping huge segments of the population trapped in poverty across all fifty states. The giant fast food companies, they say—who make huge profits while dodging taxes and paying their executives exorbitant salaries—can easily afford to pay more. More than that, according to economists, an increase to the federal minimum wage would bolster the economy as a whole.
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