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Beyond the Living Wage: A New Challenge for Progressives

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With a rule like this in place, top corporate executives would suddenly find themselves with an incredibly powerful personal incentive to advocate for a higher living wage.

As a nation, we already deny our tax dollars to companies that discriminate, in their employment policies, against women and people of color. We've determined that our tax dollars must not subsidize corporate practices that widen racial and gender inequality.

So why should we let our tax dollars widen economic inequality?

That doesn't make sense. Then again, excessive inequality never does.

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