Ebony Hughes, a home health aide and fast food worker, is struggling to survive despite working 16-hour days while raising a little girl.
This is reality for millions of people — our neighbors and friends, scattered all across the country, largely (but not necessarily) in urban areas.
But the scourge of low-paying jobs with no benefits is especially prevalent in lower-income communities and those inhabited by people of color. Which is why the movement that began after several killings of African-Americans by cops, known as Black Lives Matter, is beginning to see that raising the minimum wage is a civil rights issue, too.
