By Morf Morford February 11, 2020 Politicians are notorious for claiming credit for work they didn’t do or that was done before they came along. Exaggeration and hyperbole is part of the landscape. If you or I spoke like that, or represented ourselves on our resumes as having made those accomplishments, we’d be fired or […]
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By Colleen Flaherty February 11, 2020 Graduate student workers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, escalated their ongoing grade strike to a general strike Monday, saying they can’t afford to live where they’ve been recruited to work and study. Hundreds of students gathered on campus throughout the day for rallies, talks and solidarity. Faculty
By Randy Ching February 10, 2020 Hawaii has the highest cost of living in the U.S. When adjusted for the cost of living, our minimum wage of $10.10 an hour is one of the lowest in the country. Our cost of housing is the highest in the country. It is impossible to survive on $21,000
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By Kassia Byrnes March 02, 2020 I don’t think anyone can deny Australia is an exxy place to live these days – particularly if, like me, you’re sadly addicted to living in Sydney and therefore need rich person wages to ever leave the house (I don’t leave the house much). But how much can minimum
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By ELAINE INGALLS January 28, 2020 More than half of nonprofit workers in Santa Cruz County need to work more than one job to survive, according to a recent survey report. The 2019 Human Care Alliance Nonprofit Wage and Benefit survey report shows that 62% of nonprofit employees cannot survive working one job. Second jobs
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