minimum wage

The Fight for the American Dream

The Fight for $15, a national movement that led hundreds of people to a rally on Brookings steps on Wednesday, is quickly establishing itself as yet another cause clamoring for Washington University students’ attention

Fight for $15 kicks off with panel, poetry

A student-run panel was held April 7 for “Fight for $15,” a movement focused on raising the minimum wage to $15.

| Staff Reporter

Students prepare to protest for $15 minimum wage

Beginning Tuesday, local student organizers for the Fight for $15 movement will kick off a series of events leading up to a worldwide day of action and strike on April 15.

| Editor-in-Chief

Wage increase for employees has no effect on students

Students hoping for a wage increase along with Washington University’s full-time employees shouldn’t get their hopes up. As of July 1, the minimum hourly wage for full-time, permanent University employees was increased from $10 to $10.50. The amount is significantly more than Missouri’s required minimum wage of $7.

| News Editor

The intern strikes back

It’s getting to be that time of year again when we undergrads brush up our resumes, squeezing as many buzz words and leadership roles as we can into a single, well-formatted page. The actual internship experience may be rewarding, or you might start developing elaborate revenge fantasies, a la “Horrible Bosses.” Xuedan Wang’s experience was more like the latter.

| Forum Editor

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