- We Thought These Things Would Make Society Work Better in the 2010s. What Happened?
October 24, 2023 -
Triple Pundit
- Coalition gathers signatures to stall California’s fast-food labor law
December 6, 2022 -
East Bay Times
- Fast-food workers to stage protest over opposition to new labor law
November 14, 2022 -
Orange County Register
- Restaurant employees are essential workers yet often denied basic needs
September 23, 2021 -
Daily Californian
- What minimum wage increases did to McDonald’s restaurants — and their employees
January 28, 2021 -
MarketWatch
- Government study shows taxpayers are subsidizing “starvation wages” at McDonald’s, Walmart
December 12, 2020 -
Salon
- Millions of U.S Workers for Walmart, McDonald’s and Other Corporate Giants Rely on Food Stamps and Medicaid
November 20, 2020 -
In These Times
- Walmart and McDonald’s have the most workers on food stamps and Medicaid, new study shows
November 18, 2020 -
Washington Post
- Taco Bell will try paying some managers $100,000 a year — but In-N-Out Burger already pays managers $160,000
January 9, 2020 -
MarketWatch
- Burger King Wants You to ‘Feel Your Way.’ But What About Its Own Employees?
May 23, 2019 -
Eater
- Missoula city, county push to increase wages, but will the private sector follow?
February 18, 2019 -
Missoula Current
- Sanders, Khanna Introduce Bill to Get Billionaires Off Welfare
September 5, 2018 -
Bernie Sanders U.S. Senator for Vermont Newsroom
- Bernie Sanders’s BEZOS bill takes aim at how Amazon pays workers
September 5, 2018 -
Vox
- How Andy Puzder’s fast-food industry sticks taxpayers with the cost of supporting its workers
January 23, 2017 -
Los Angeles Times
- Fight for $15 to join Chicago Teachers Union’s April 1 strike
March 25, 2016 -
Chicago Tribune
- Gov. Andrew Cuomo: NY workers deserve a $15 minimum wage (Commentary)
March 7, 2016 -
Syracuse.com
- $15 minimum wage doomsayers wrong
October 2, 2015 -
Orange County Register
- Automats: The Utopian Future or a Return to a Dystopian Past?
September 16, 2015 -
Eater
- Fast-Food Workers Have Won the Wage Fight in New York
September 11, 2015 -
TakePart
- Orange County Register Echoes Right-Wing Media Myths To Attack $15 Minimum Wage In California
September 9, 2015 -
Media Matters for America
- Don’t blame your expensive lunch on minimum wage increases
July 14, 2015 -
The Guardian
- The List of the Fight for $15’s Victories—Tangible and Intangible—Is Getting Longer
June 15, 2015 -
In These Times
- ‘Fight For $15’ workers create recipe for change at convention
June 6, 2015 -
Al Jazeera America
- Forget First Quarter Earnings, Wal-Mart Just Made a Long-Term, Business-Sustaining Move
May 21, 2015 -
TheStreet
- Ending the Minimum-Wage Subsidy
May 20, 2015 -
Bloomberg View
- What James Franco gets wrong about working for McDonald’s
May 7, 2015 -
Washington Post Wonkblog
- Dem leaders want Senate food workers to make $15 an hour
April 28, 2015 -
The Hill
- The Makings of a Fast-Food-Worker Movement
April 17, 2015 -
TakePart
- ‘High Public Cost Of Low Wages’: Taxpayers Paying Billions In Assistance To Working Families
April 14, 2015 -
Inquisitr
- Five myths about fast-food work
April 10, 2015 -
Washington Post
- McDonald’s Minimum Raise
April 3, 2015 -
New York Times
- Should McDonald’s Follow Wal-Mart’s Lead and Hike Wages?
March 26, 2015 -
Motley Fool
- Could a $15 minimum wage make sense for Oregon?
March 9, 2015 -
Christian Science Monitor
- Making a Living Wage in Fast Food in Denmark
January 29, 2015 -
The Daily Meal
- Two years later, fast food workers’ fight for $15 and a union still going strong
December 31, 2014 -
Richmond Confidential
- The False Dichotomy of Wages vs. Profits
December 22, 2014 -
strategy+business blog
- Fast Food Workers, Joined By Other Low Wage Workers, Strike in Record 190 Cities
December 4, 2014 -
In These Times
- Fast-Food Workers Strike in Oakland, Again
December 4, 2014 -
East Bay Express
- Fast Food in Denmark Serves Something Atypical: Living Wages
October 27, 2014 -
New York Times
- Is the Fast-Food Industry Driving Income Inequality in America?
October 15, 2014 -
Business Cheat Sheet
- Rich and on the dole
October 14, 2014 -
New York Daily News
- Four takeaways from Joe Biden’s Las Vegas visit
October 6, 2014 -
Las Vegas Sun
- Marriott to hotel guests: Please pay our maids for us
September 16, 2014 -
Fortune
- Dignity: Fast-food workers and a new form of labor activism
September 15, 2014 -
The New Yorker
- Study: Fast Food Workers More Likely To Be On Publicly Subsidized Healthcare
September 4, 2014 -
Capital Public Radio
- Union Workers Push for Minimum Wage Hike
September 1, 2014 -
ABC7 News
- A university president gave up $90,000 to give his minimum wage workers a raise
August 11, 2014 -
Vox
- UFCW study urges legislative support for unions
June 9, 2014 -
Supermarket News
- Study: Grocery workers struggle to pay for food
June 8, 2014 -
San Diego Union-Tribune
- Grocery workers in California see wages shrink
June 8, 2014 -
San Francisco Chronicle
- Opinion: Why fast food workers need be be paid more
May 15, 2014 -
CNN
- The fast food strike: the hard facts behind the Big Mac attack
May 15, 2014 -
PBS Newshour
- Fast food workers to strike again
May 14, 2014 -
Boston Globe
- The Blame-Game, Double Standards & Fast Food: A Tale of the United States Economy
May 13, 2014 -
The London Economic
- Wall Street Journal Promotes Falsehood That Higher Wages Push Workers Onto Government “Dole”
May 6, 2014 -
Media Matters for America
- Fast Food Pulls a Fast One
April 29, 2014 -
Moyers & Company
- How taxpayers subsidize millions in restaurant CEO pay
April 22, 2014 -
CBS MoneyWatch
- Fast-food CEOs make 1,000 times more than their workers
April 22, 2014 -
CBS MoneyWatch
- How high should minimum wage go?
April 7, 2014 -
Cincinnati Enquirer
- Thumbs-up for $15-an-hour minimum wage in new S.F. poll
March 16, 2014 -
San Francisco Chronicle
- Report: Minimum wage hike would cut food stamp spending by $4.6 billion a year
March 4, 2014 -
Washington Post
- Hey, Washington! The Pay Is Too Damn Low: The Minimum-Wage War
February 27, 2014 -
Rolling Stone
- For $1 per Big Mac, a truly livable salary for millions
February 18, 2014 -
Boston Globe
- The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage
February 8, 2014 -
New York Times
- Why McDonald’s Should Focus on Less Beef and Higher Wages
January 29, 2014 -
The Guardian
- Bill O’Reilly Blesses Minimum Wage Hike
January 15, 2014 -
San Francisco Chronicle
- Raise Minimum Wages, Say Some on the Right
January 12, 2014 -
San Francisco Chronicle
- Audio: McDonald’s Tells Full-Time Employee to Apply for Welfare Benefits
October 24, 2013 -
Moyers & Company
- Fast-Food Giants Make Billions while their Workers use Billions in Welfare Benefits
October 15, 2013 -
Alternet
- McDonald’s on employee resources site: Not lovin’ it
December 26, 2013 -
CNN
- The Minimum Wage and McDonald’s Welfare
December 17, 2013 -
Bloomberg
- Is service work today worse than being a household servant?
December 10, 2013 -
Al Jazeera America
- Fox Piles On Big Business’ Attempt To Smear Fast Food Protesters As “Rent-A-Mobs”
December 10, 2013 -
Media Matters for America
- Editorial: Work and Rewards
December 6, 2013 -
New York Times
- Large number of low-wage workers rely on public assistance programs
December 5, 2013 -
89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio, Airtalk
- Want to Cut Food Stamp Spending? Raise the Minimum Wage
December 3, 2013 -
Huffington Post
- Life on $7.25 an Hour: Older Workers Are Increasingly Entering Fast-Food Industry
November 28, 2013 -
New York Times
- Walmart Employees Organize Food Drive… for Other Walmart Employees
November 18, 2013 -
Yahoo Finance
- Commentary: When fast food corporations hold down wages, it affects all of us
November 13, 2013 -
by Ken Jacobs
- Taxpayers pay high cost for low fast-food wages, lawmakers are told
November 13, 2013 -
Los Angeles Times
- Report: Fast Food Bad for California Taxpayers
November 13, 2013 -
KCRA 3 News, Sacramento
- California Legislature Holds Joint Fast Food Wages Hearing
November 13, 2013 -
Capital Public Radio
- Legislators Probe Taxpayer Cost of Aiding Fast-Food Workers
November 13, 2013 -
San Francisco Chronicle
- Lowering the Minimum Wage? What a Terrible Idea
November 12, 2013 -
The Guardian
- Editorial: Fast-Food Subsidy Unsavory
November 7, 2013 -
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- One NYC Family’s Struggle to Survive on a Fast Food Salary
November 4, 2013 -
PBS NewsHour
- Bill Maher: Average fast food worker is 29, most are on public assistance
November 4, 2013 -
PunditFact
- Low Wages Force More Than Half Of Fast Food Workers To Rely On Government Assistance
November 3, 2013 -
Business Insider
- The Real Cost of Fast Food
October 31, 2013 -
Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Editorial: Taxpayers’ $7 billion Subsidy to Fast-Food Profits Should End
October 30, 2013 -
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
- Taxpayers Spending $7 Billion To Supplement Fast-Food Workers’ Wages
October 18, 2013 -
International Business Times
- How Multi-Billion Dollar Corporations Rely on the Public to Feed their Workforce
October 16, 2013 -
American Prospect
- Why US Taxpayers Pay $7 Billion A Year To Help Fast-Food Workers
October 16, 2013 -
NPR The Salt blog
- Fast-food workers leaning on federal aid
October 16, 2013 -
CBS MoneyWatch
- Public Aid Crucial to Fast-Food Workers
October 16, 2013 -
Boston Globe
- Fast Food, Big Costs
October 16, 2013 -
San Diego Union-Tribune
- Low fast-food wages come at high public cost, reports say
October 15, 2013 -
Washington Post
October 15, 2013 -
Wall Street Journal
- McDonald’s Low Wages Cost Taxpayers $1.2 Billion Per Year: Study
October 15, 2013 -
Huffington Post
- McDonald’s Low Wages Come With a $7 Billion Side of Welfare
October 15, 2013 -
Bloomberg Businessweek
- Fast-Food Workers Are Costing the US $7 Billion a Year in Public Aid
October 15, 2013 -
Time
- Majority of US fast-food workers need public assistance –study
October 15, 2013 -
Reuters
- Majority of US fast food workers need public assistance
October 15, 2013 -
Al Jazeera America
- Low fast-food wages come at high cost to US taxpayers, says report
October 15, 2013 -
The Guardian
- Study: Taxpayers Foot Costly Bill for Fast-Food Workers
October 15, 2013 -
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Fast-Food Workers Depend on Public Aid, Report Says
October 15, 2013 -
Chicago Tribune
- More Than Half of U.S. Fast Food Workers on Public Aid, Report Says
October 15, 2013 -
Los Angeles Times
- Public Assistance for Fast-Food Workers Costs Taxpayers, Reports Say
October 15, 2013 -
Kansas City Star
- Majority of Fast-Food Households are Using Welfare Assistance, Medicaid: Report
October 15, 2013 -
New York Daily News
- Report: Burger King Workers Collecting More than $300M in Public Assistance
October 15, 2013 -
Miami Herald
- Half of Fast Food Workers Receive Income Subsidies, Medicaid or Food Stamps, Study Says
October 15, 2013 -
Hartford Courant
- Low-wage fast-food jobs leave hefty tax bill, report says
October 15, 2013 -
Berkeley News