We are not just numbers on a spreadsheet (Daily Kos)

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Mark E. Anderson
March 13, 2016

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(Daily Kos) We work harder and longer than our parents did, yet we are not reaping the rewards of that productivity. We have to do more with less. If a co-worker is laid off to “control costs and align the workforce to best meet needs of the business,” guess what? Your workload just increased, and you are not getting a raise to do that additional work.

We can change this, but it will take sensible policies from our leadership, like raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation. Instead of weakening unions, strengthen then. Lawmakers can update overtime rules, and use tax policy to restrain incomes of those in the one percent (i.e. a maximum wage), just to name a few possible solutions.

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