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Time, August 27, 2013, Tuesday

Time

August 27, 2013, Tuesday

Time (full article)

Workers Expected to Protest Low Wages in 35 Cities

“Because of the difficulty of getting jobs in general…for people with relatively modest education levels, you have a lot of people working in these companies who are trying to support a family based upon their earnings alone,” says Ronald Ehrenberg, a professor of industrial and labor relations and economics at Cornell University. “That’s very, very difficult to do.”