Because we refuse to use government to provide decent paying work for all those who are willing and able to work, we leave vast tracks of our cities mired in poverty.
As Andreessen Horowitz partner Jeff Jordan said recently: "The whole employment relationship between the U.S. worker and employers has changed and there are a lot of people looking for decent paying jobs.
Young people will be forced to help support their elders, even as they pay off their huge college loans, while looking for a decent paying job.
Communities experiencing economic hardship, where decent paying jobs and benefits, especially for people without a college degree, are limited, have been most affected by the opioid epidemic.
"We are only asking for decent pay for the hard-working people the government say they care so much about.
A country with a large group of strivers, but decent pay for those who do basic jobs, is becoming harder to achieve.
Workers are workers, no matter where they come from, and they should all be treated with dignity and respect, and at the very least get decent pay for decent work.
To officials in these sports — known in college athletics circles as "nonrevenue" or "Olympic" sports — the recent salary surge is finally creating decent pay for important jobs.
Hiscox said that physically, "the British worker could definitely do this job". He said the work provides an "outdoor life" and decent pay for a young person.
The demands of striking workers range from better food in the factory cafeteria to proper compensation for overtime, but essentially everything boils down to decent pay for decent work.
"I believe that in this century, we can win a four-day working week, with decent pay for everyone," Frances O'Grady, the head of the Trades Union Congress, an umbrella group, said in a speech at the labor federation's annual conference.
