Voters in States and Cities Get It: Workers Deserve a Living Wage

We Can Do Better · Aug 13, 2026 · 27m · transcript

Many of the people we see in eviction court losing their homes are working long hours at difficult jobs. But they work in retail, the home healthcare sector, in food service work, etc.--where their employers do not pay them wages high enough to keep themselves housed.

So that is why we welcome this week to We Can Do Better David Cooper of the Economic Policy Institute. EPI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank working for the last 30 years to counter rising inequality, low wages and weak benefits for working people.

David shares with us how, at a time when the national minimum wage is…