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Wage Theft describes nonpayment of owed wages by employers. Once a problem confined to poorer countries, it has become more common in the United States. Victims are typically workers earning small incomes who come from minority communities. Undocumented workers are especially vulnerable. This crime against workers is easier to perpetrate in the United States because state government agencies responsible for enforcing minimum wage laws have been cut in many states. Some "job creators" took that as an opportunity to steal.

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rdfs:comment	Wage Theft describes nonpayment of owed wages by employers. Once a problem confined to poorer countries, it has become more common in the United States. Victims are typically workers earning small incomes who come from minority communities. Undocumented workers are especially vulnerable. This crime against workers is easier to perpetrate in the United States because state government agencies responsible for enforcing minimum wage laws have been cut in many states. Some "job creators" took that as an opportunity to steal. Wage Theft describes nonpayment of owed wages by employers. Once a problem confined to poorer countries, it has become more common in the United States. Victims are typcially workers earning small incomes who come from minority communities. Undocumented workers are especially vulnerable. This crime against workers is easier to perpetrate in the United States because state government agencies responsible for enforcing minimum wage laws have been cut in many states. Some "job creators" took that as an opportunity to steal.
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dcterms:subject	People who break the law People who break the law Business Business Things Conservatives Love Things Conservatives Love
abstract	Wage Theft describes nonpayment of owed wages by employers. Once a problem confined to poorer countries, it has become more common in the United States. Victims are typically workers earning small incomes who come from minority communities. Undocumented workers are especially vulnerable. This crime against workers is easier to perpetrate in the United States because state government agencies responsible for enforcing minimum wage laws have been cut in many states. Some "job creators" took that as an opportunity to steal. Wage Theft describes nonpayment of owed wages by employers. Once a problem confined to poorer countries, it has become more common in the United States. Victims are typcially workers earning small incomes who come from minority communities. Undocumented workers are especially vulnerable. This crime against workers is easier to perpetrate in the United States because state government agencies responsible for enforcing minimum wage laws have been cut in many states. Some "job creators" took that as an opportunity to steal. What is the proper role of government in this? This is what Abraham Lincoln had to say: “If we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been or can be enjoyed by us without having first cost labor. And inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labor has produced them. But it has so happened, in all the ages of the world, that some have labored, and others have without labor enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government." Shamefully, in 2014 Republican politicians in Iowa actually fought to stop legislation that would prevent wage theft.

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