I try not to cut back on food for my kids… If I have to, I let the phone get cut off. Or I don’t put gas in my car.
— Twenty-six year old Wal-Mart employee Joanna Lopez, explaining that some months she doesn’t have enough money to pay the bills and support her two children. Grocery workers like Lopez have seen their wages shrink over the last few years, according to a new study by UC Berkeley’s Food Labor Research Center.
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