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For the past four decades, the majority of American workers have been shortchanged by economic policymaking that has suppressed the growth of hourly wages and prevented greater improvements in living standards. Achieving a secure, middle-class lifestyle has become increasingly difficult as hourly pay for most workers has either stagnated or declined. For millions of the country's lowest-paid workers, financial security is even more fleeting because of unscrupulous employers stealing a portion of their paychecks.
Wage theft, the practice of employers failing to pay workers the full wages to which they are legally entitled, is a widespread and deep-rooted problem that directly harms millions of U.S. workers each year. Employers refusing to pay promised wages, paying less than legally mandated minimums, failing to pay for all hours worked, or not paying overtime premiums deprives working people of billions of dollars annually. It also leaves hundreds of thousands of affected workers and their families in poverty. Wage theft does not just harm the workers and families who directly suffer exploitation; it also weakens the bargaining power of workers more broadly by putting downward pressure on hourly wages in affected industries and occupations. For many low-income families who suffer wage theft, the resulting loss of income forces them to rely more heavily on public assistance programs, unduly straining safety net programs and hamstringing efforts to reduce poverty.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @07:03PM (6 children)
You have made a life choice: You have chosen to live in the middle of nowhere, far away from the infrastructure that carries the Internet's bits.
If you want to tap into that infrastructure, then you find a way to do that; either pay for last 100 miles out to your shack, or move into the nearest city like everybody else.
It makes no sense for society to squander its resources bringing YouPorn to the sticks. Fuck You, you entitled forest-dwelling cunt.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Monday May 22 2017, @07:57PM (4 children)
I live in the middle of one of the top three largest US cities. I am unable to get fiber to the premise. I can get contract-hobbled DOCSIS/cable internet with incredibly abusive terms-of-service and horrible maintenance and customer service.
If I can't get decent internet service without paying upwards of $500/month, then there's much to be said for GP's point.
And so for me and GP, fuck you, you self-righteous, ignorant, piece of shit!
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @08:00PM (3 children)
If not even the city has been able to build Internet infrastructure robustly, then why in the world would anyone be willing to let governments squander resources in the sticks?
We can agree on one thing: Governments fuck everything up.
(Score: 4, Funny) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Tuesday May 23 2017, @12:01AM (2 children)
Ftfy.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @11:24AM (1 child)
However, you cannot stop paying a government for its rotten services.
Indeed, if you try to stop paying a government, you'll probably be beaten up by thugs and then thrown into a cage.
(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday May 24 2017, @01:26AM
Substitute "protected privately owned monopoly, such as water supply" for "government" and your argument is equally valid.
It's NOT a conspiracy... it's a plot.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday May 22 2017, @08:50PM
I live in the city limits, 1 mile from the loop interstate offramp, 3 miles from the thru-interstate offramp, 1/2 mile from shopping centers, in a major metro area (800K pop.)
I have Comcast and AT&T to choose from, and they both suck. AT&T charges nearly as much for dysfunctional DSL as Comcast charges for slightly more often functional cable internet. We've been in this home for 3 years and Comcast has raised our monthly bill to 2x what we started at, a little bit every 6 months, while trimming services along the way. For the cheapest slowest internet service they offer, we're at $56 per month, up from $48 per month for "BLAST SPEED" last year, up from $36 per month for the cable bundle the year before that, up from the $28 per month "please please please don't use our competition dear new resident" introductory period.
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