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Saurav Sarkar

Saurav Sarkar is the research coordinator for the Poor Peoples Campaign at the Institute for Policy Studies.

The US Is One of the Only Countries That Doesn’t Recognize International Workers’ Day

It’s not a coincidence that while most Americans are struggling, just three individuals—Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Warren Buffett—together own as much wealth as half of the country combined.

May 1st, 2018
Saurav Sarkar
May 1st, 2018
By Saurav Sarkar
Protesters march on Wall Street in front of the New York Stock Exchange, Tuesday, May 1, 2018. Workers and activists marked May Day with rallies around the world to demand their government address labor issues. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Most of the world recognizes May 1—May Day—as International Workers’ Day. Here in one of the few countries that doesn’t, it’s worth pausing to ask how U.S. workers are doing. At an event last December, Fight for $15 organizer Terrence Wise recalled “going to bed at night, ignoring my own stomach’s rumbling, but having to hear my three little

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