Bending the Third Rail
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Monday, January 30, 2006
The Wages of Morality
The Christian Science Monitor has a refreshing story about the fight for living wages.

It's unusual for a controversial economic issue to be fought on moral grounds. But ACORN, a public advocacy group, has been winning a higher "living wage" for workers in state after state, city after city, by appealing to voters' sense of justice.

"It's probably the best [argument] we have," says Jen Kern, director of ACORN's Living Wage Resource Center. A decent income is a moral matter of "fairness," she says. Those who "play by the rules of the game should be able to support themselves by their work."

Written at 1:23 PM by Lynne.
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