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Topic: Low wage

People line up at the food pantry at Sacred Heart Community Service on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. Silicon Valley is entering it’s fifth year of unfettered growth, with among the highest incomes in the U.S. and the largest share of high-growth, high-wage jobs. Those gains have doubled housing costs in the past five years while wages for low and middle skilled workers are stagnant. Homelessness and racial disparities are on the rise. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Silicon Valley worker revolt

JULIANNE TVETEN - In These Times
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Serfdom, 21st-century style

Luke Brinker
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McDonald's let my arm burn!

Brittney Berry
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Silicon Valley's low-wage mess

Julia Carrie Wong
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An artist'’s rendering provided by Friends of the High Line of the High Line park in Manhattan (Associated Press)

Gentrification's quiet tragedy

Sally Kohn
Strikers at D.C.'s Union Station (@GoodFoodNation)

Natasha Lennard
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Spencer Woodman - In These Times
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