Can you live on $2.13 an hour plus tips? Saru Jayaraman asks Why vote if the system isn’t working?
About this episode
Saru Jayaraman discusses the challenges of living on subminimum wages and the importance of voting for systemic change.
  Saru Jayaraman (JD, Yale, MPP Harvard) is an academic at UC Berkeley and the President of One Fair Wage, which organizes to raise wages and end subminimum wages nationwide. She was named one of CNN’s “Top10 Visionary Women”, a White House Champion of Change in 2014, a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award winner (2015), […]
People in this episode
Guest: Saru Jayaraman
Topics covered
- wages
- labor rights
- political activism
- social justice
- economic inequality
Keywords
- subminimum wage
- tips
- voting
- economic justice
- labor rights
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: One Fair Wage, CNN, White House, James Beard Foundation, UC Berkeley
Places: Harvard
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