Cities Advance Their Fight Against Rising Inequality

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In January, Teresa Fuentes’s employer told her she could work no more than 30 hours a week preparing burgers and passing out food at the drive-through for about $9.50 an hour.

What a beautiful way to write around the elephant in the room there.

[Edit to add: The Affordable Care Act includes a provision called the Employer Mandate, informally called "play-or-pay." It says that for employers with 50+ employees (including e.g. the aggregate of fast food shops owned by a single owner) which don't pay for X level of healthcare benefits get fined $2k per full-time employee per year.

A full-time employee is, simplifying a bit, one who works 30 hours per week.]

I know of an American manufacturing company that makes electric motors of all shapes and sizes. It's been steadily growing for a few years and now grosses 5+ million a year. Despite their profits steady increase, they remain at 49 employees. Apropos of nothing, their profits have started to level off.

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