Yesterday morning at my neighborhood Starbucks, a white woman around 20 years old who has worked there for quite some time told me that she would be leaving Starbucks within a few days. She told me the reason is that she has secured another job, a retail job that is totally unrelated to the coffee trade. She said that her new job would guarantee more working hours and would also mean higher pay.

presumably, that woman’s job at Starbucks  helped … Continue reading Waging Minimum-Wage War Against Black Teenagers