Income inequality is more than a political sound bite to workers in the Capitol. It's their life.
Many of the Capitol's food servers, who make the meals, bus the tables and run the cash registers in the restaurants and carryouts that serve lawmakers, earn less than $11 an hour. Some make nothing at all when Congress is in recess...
...A few Democrats objected. "You cannot stand on the Senate floor and condemn the privatization of workers, and then turn around and privatize the workers here in the Senate and leave them out on their own," Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said at the time.
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March 12, 2024