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Three-quarters of all U.S. jobs will require a high school education or less by 2022, according to estimates by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Nearly all of those jobs will be low-wage service industry jobs. Campaigns to raise the wage, expand access to paid sick days, and organize workers to advocate for better working conditions are gaining momentum across the country. But the "wage crushers" are doubling down in their efforts to hold down wages and disempower working people.

In this online resource, the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD, the publisher of the award-winning ALEC Exposed investigation) tracks and unmasks the "wage crushers": the corporations, trade associations, "think tanks," and front groups lobbying hard against better wages, benefits, and job standards for workers, with help from ALEC and its spin-off group ACCE.