Lawmakers sign off. But even mannin mandating a minimum wage doesnt make positive it reaches the workers. Wage theft in many other workplaces, it is rampant and it cost workers as much as 80 billion a year. America tonights Christof Putzel uncovers the unpaid work of many. Translator ilways imagined the u. S. To be a free and democratic country. I expected to see money everywhere. Reporter 44yearold father and husband, he came here to new york in 2001 for what he hoped would be a better life. Translator its not like i imagined. Just like china the u. S. Has its dark side, a lot of unfairness. It is a society with a lot of inequality. Reporter in 2007 he took job with an independent taxi company known as yes car working long hours. So in 2007 you were making about 500 a week that i is tha . Uhhuh. Your pay was about 500. How many days a week were you working, six days . Yes. Six days a week about 12 hours a day . Yes. Do the math. He was working 72 hours a week earning 6. 94 with no ove
Welcome to inside story. The gaat, the wto, nafta, cafta. The tpp. The United States has had leaders from both parties who told the people of this country that free trade creates american jobs, that yes, there would be some job losses overtime but those were jobs that were going to be lost anyway in an increasingly competitive global marketplace and those who lost jobs would gets new ones. Fast forward almost 25 years from the nafta negotiations, for example, and today, the leading republican candidate for president , donald trump, is insisting to loud and sustained applause that American Workers got snookerred. And in the democratic party, the surging campaign of Bernie Sanders also casts doubt on the free trade creed that set the tone for American Economic policies since ronald reagan. When candidates claim that free trade has been a defendant net loser for the American Worker, can they do, do this make the case . Did the reassurances give an anxious workers in pennsylvania, ohio, in
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. The man who allegedly highjacked an egypt air jet is now in custody in cypress. There were 55 onboard when the plane was taken off its course from alexandria to cairo. All having released, apparently unharmed. Officials say the situation is over. The highjacker initially claimed to be wearing a suicide belted, but Authorities Say it was a fake. No explosives were found onboard. Now officials are questioning the man. The motive does not appear to be terrorism. Hours after the crisis began, the final few hostages are seen exiting the highjacked plane. One dramatically escaped through the cockpit window. Everybody else used the mobile stairs. They were escorted or thear mack by police. The highjacker is believed to be among them. Egypts minister of Civil Aviation announced the revolution. All the passengers along with the crew were released. They are now safe and sound. This is what we worked on at any cost from the very
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