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Can You Survive on a Low-Wage Job? · Labor Radio-Podcast Daily

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  Barbara was left with the question, Well, what is actually gonna happen to
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  these working women who are being pushed off welfare and into the workforce?"
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  This is the Labor Radio Podcast Daily for Monday, August 31st.
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  And so if that's supposed to be the answer, you know, uh, get a job,
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  like, let me go out and look and see whether you can support yourself
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  on a low-wage job, and that was the genesis of Nickeled and Dimed.
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  That's from the Working People podcast on the Labor Radio Podcast
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  In today's labor history on this date in 1991, three hundred and
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  twenty-five thousand unionists gathered in Washington, DC For a Solidarity
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  Day march and rally for workplace fairness and healthcare reform.
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  You can discover these stories where they happened.
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  The online Labor Landmarks Map is available at laborheritage.org.
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  Today's labor quote is by Lula Brayboy of San Mateo, California, a member of
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  The Machinist at the 1991 march, who said she was marching to secure, quote,
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  "justice for all working people," unquote.
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  This has been Chris Garlock for the Labor Radio Podcast Network.