Push for better wages driven by New Orleans area families falling short

Advocate Photo by VERONICA DOMINACH -- Donald Shearry daughter, Jada, 8, looks up dance vides to improve her dance moves after she gets home from school in Harvey on March 6, 2015. Donald, 34, works as many hours as he’s allowed at a New Orleans-area McDonald’s. But his earnings, around $600 a month, are typically only enough to pay rent and bills for lights and water.

“Many struggling workers want a simple benefit: actual pay for the work they do, said Erika Zucker, of the Loyola University-based Workplace Justice Project, which helped to present a symposium about low-wage work last weekend.”

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