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Kim Bobo, director of Interfaith Worker Justice and author of Wage Theft in America (which we excerpted here and here), appeared on Good Morning America yesterday:
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Plus, Tuesday's New York Times had a great article by Steven Greenhouse on nonenforcement of labor regulations by the Labor Department. The GAO report that is the focus of the article actually uses the term "wage theft":
Labor Agency Is Failing Workers, Report Says
Read the rest of the article.
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