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> the news is happy to hype stories about recurring car break ins, but is then quiet about wage theft That's clearly untrue, given the story we're talking abou
by peteretep 6y ago
> the news is happy to hype stories about recurring car break ins, but is then quiet about wage theft
That's clearly untrue, given the story we're talking about here.
- trowawee 6y agoWage theft comprises, by some estimates, about 75% of all theft in the United States each year[1]. A brief perusal of television news or newspapers in any city in this country will make it immediately apparent that the crime that corporate media likes to focus on is very much not wage theft. [1]: https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-forms-theft-workers/ https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-bigger-problem-fo...