“The study found that women were far more likely to suffer minimum wage violations than men, with the highest prevalence among women who were illegal immigrants. Among American-born workers, African-Americans had a violation rate nearly triple that for whites.”

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Those are two utterly unsurprising sentences from this depressing NYT article about how often low wage workers are cheated by their employers.

–Ann Bartow

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