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Jim Hightower, it's complicated
But wait -- the corporate greed doesn't stop there. In the past decade, this greedy consortium of rich wage suppressors has devised a diabolical scheme to make restaurant workers pay for the industry's lobbying campaigns to hold down wages! The Association bought an outfit that provides hokey food safety training to restaurant workers, then it lobbied to get California, Florida, Illinois and Texas and other states to require...
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that all employees not only undergo the silly online training course, but to also make each worker pay a $15 fee for the training.
Guess what? NRA then uses those worker training fees to fund its lobbying efforts that let restaurants pay poverty wages. And that, kids, is how inequality happens.
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https://www.arcamax.com/politics/fromtheleft/jimhightower/s-2777158