The average food stamp recipient receives about $31 a week ($4.42 a day) for groceries and that’s apparently too much for House Republicans —who by the way earn about $3,350 a week plus perks and seem to work about three days a week for maybe 40 weeks of the year. But I digress.
In this latest Workonomics installment for Upworthy Rep. Peter DeFazio (E-Ore.), sees just how far that $30 stretches and then live on it for a week.
If anyone still has questions about just exactly how much extremist House Republicans loathe low-income families, they got answers last night when the U.S. House voted down its agriculture spending bill in a 195 to 234 vote.
South Carolina AFL-CIO sends us this update : On Monday, more than 50 community members from Boiling Springs and Spartanburg, S.C., participated in a “dine-in” at Copper River Grill in support of the servers, bartenders, hostesses and other workers as they fight for a voice on the job and the right to self-representation at work. The community wore stickers today that read "I Support the Workers of Copper River Grill."
Show your solidarity Super Bowl Sunday by not only cheering on your favorite NFL Players Association ( NFLPA ) members on the San Francisco 49ers and Baltimore Ravens, but also buying union-made-in-America food and drinks for your party. Check out these union-made Super Bowl party products , compiled by our friends at Labor 411 , the union business directory from the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor . Food and drinks are brought to you by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers ( BCTGM ), the UAW , Machinists ( IAM ), Teamsters ( IBT ) and the United Food and Commercial Workers ( UFCW ).
It’s been four years since low-wage workers got a raise. Sign the petition to tell Congress it’s time to raise the minimum wage.
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