Dec 04 2008
Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Americans Are Not Getting Paid
As the US is officially considered to be in a recession, American households are feeling the financial squeeze more than ever, heading into the holiday season. Wages are stagnating, jobs are being cut, homes are being foreclosed, and prices are rising. But a barely covered aspect of the US economy that affects millions of workers is wage theft. According to activist and writer Kim Bobo, “[b]illions of dollars in wages are being illegally stolen from millions of workers each and every year,” through violating minimum wage and overtime laws, mis-classifying workers, and sometimes simply refusing them salary for work done. While poor immigrant workers often face the worst forms of wage theft, American citizens in the middle class are also significantly affected. Kim Bobo’s new book is “Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Americans Are Not Getting Paid and What We Can Do About it.”
GUEST: Kim Bobo, author of “Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Americans Are Not Getting Paid and What We Can Do About it,” and founder and Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice
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