Fernandez has been held up as a symbol of the hardships facing the nation's low-wage workers. ... Some fast food items would have to increase by over 200% to make up for minimum wage increases. ... Individuals who work at some fast food restaurants do not even need a high school diploma or GED. ... A performance study was done for fast food and dine-in restaurants across the U.S. and according to the study, the dine-in experience was much more pleasant than a fast food experience (Fast food or dine-in debate). At a fast food restaurant the customer has to walk up to the restaurant count...

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Former United States president Bill Clinton has also openly discussed his support of increasing the minimum wage throughout the nation. ... In New York, fast food workers are rallying in Albany, New York City, and other cities to raise the minimum wage. ...

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Going to the article on the fast food workers that don't make enough money for food, how many of them working on minimum wage are living in Kentucky? ... If you are not familiar with Alice Lloyd, she is a woman who came to Pippa Passes, Kentucky to teach, where she believed some of the students were the best and brightest students in the nation, so she founded a college where the students in the Appalachian part of Kentucky could go to college for no charge and graduate debt free. ... Though the WIC program is a national program of supplements for women, infants, and children, Michelle To...

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Basic needs such as housing, utilities, food and health care have to be chosen one over the other to survive. ... The retail industry employs more than half the nations hourly workers at or below minimum wage, even though the industries profits went up 158 percent since 1968. ... They are now ranked among the top fast food chains in food quality, and customer service. ...

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