Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage

September 6, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is labor in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 3^rd.

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A Labor Day poem advocating for a living wage:

Let every worker earn a living wage,

And every family have enough to eat.

Better bellies full of bread than rage.

One finds no better peacemaker than wheat.

Really? Can we get around inflation?

Demand increases; what about supply?

Affluence reduces population.

Yet some prefer to see poor people die.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Labor

9/3: Labor Is a Blessing and a Curse

9/4: Labor Is Identity

9/5: Labor Is the Burden of Our Being

9/6: Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage