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“In a household, you literally have to have like maybe two or three people with the income to be able to survive, to be able to pay mortgage, to be able to buy groceries, to be able to pay for gas, childcare.” Record profits over last five years — $24 billion — high salaries of executives when lower level workers can barely make ends meet. “This is not just hotel workers. These are not just city employees. This is everywhere where big companies are making more profits than actually taking care of their people.”

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[–] timespace 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have inside knowledge of nurse pay at Kaiser, and, in the north bay anyway, they make well over $150k/year and have some of the highest paying jobs in our county.