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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.
-- submitted from IRC
(Score: 3, Insightful) by AthanasiusKircher on Monday May 22 2017, @08:25PM (5 children)
Dear Mr. AC,
You've taught me a valuable lesson today. Just a few hours ago, I went out of my way to comment on how important I thought ACs were to the discourse on this site. (Which I sincerely believed.) In response, you've chosen to attempt to troll me with ad hominem attacks, even as I've tried to respond politely.
So I'm done replying to ACs at least for the near future. If you want to actually have a discussion, either log in and own up to your trolling, or at least learn how to express yourself in something more than vague overgeneralizations. You rightly called me out earlier for my sometimes excessive verbosity. But a pithy reply without substance coupled with a personal attack is, I'd say, a much stronger indicator of an "inability to reason meaningfully," as you put it.
Cheers!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @08:44PM
For what it is worth, I enjoyed your comments and found them valuable. Please don't feel you need to respond, I don't want you to break with your new policy so soon. I just want you to know your words are thought provoking and valued, even by those of us without an account.
- JCD
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @09:37PM
I certainly won't miss your replies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 22 2017, @09:46PM (2 children)
It does not make sense to say that something is both "pithy" and "without substance".
I guess you really cannot reason meaningfully.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @07:44AM (1 child)
Pithy was a reference to what the comments were TRYING to be, without substance is what they actually WERE. Not AK, just helping a fellow AC be less of an idiot.
There are many ways to view pithy, as usual context is quite important for language. Sounds more like you're looking for minor flaws since you've got nothing better!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 23 2017, @04:50PM
So, the other AC made a statement that was—according to your definition—"full of substance", and yet it still makes sense to say that it was "without substance"?
To borrow a phrase, you people really cannot reason meaningfully...