Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Cross-posted with Moms Rising. I am an RN who specializes in utilization review. I had worked for the same company since 1999. Unfortunately, as the dawn of the economic crisis broke, that company was swallowed up by another company, and then that was sold to another. After years of losing […]

Part of the #HERvotes blog carnival. Originally published at MomsRising.org. When I was in high school and college, I worked in restaurants. I worked for minimum wage and I worked hard – cleaning, cooking, even counting money and making bank deposits. I remember my pay going from 3.35 an hour to 3.45 an hour when […]