Critics fear Amazon’s minimum wage hike will distract from its other issues
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The world’s most powerful retailer will pay more, but its impact on the economy may mean more struggles for low-wage workers In 1967, just a year before his assassination, Dr Martin Luther King launched the Poor People’s Campaign to “to demand that the government address itself to the problem of poverty”. Five decades on little has changed for low-wage workers. Minimum wage increases in the US have failed to even keep pace with inflation. A full-time minimum wage worker in 1968 would have (...)
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