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Labor Day protesters across the country demand workers' rights, decry ICE
Protests highlight that 67 million U.S. workers earn less than $25 per hour, calling for living wages and opposing policies favoring billionaires, organizers said.
- On Labor Day, protesters across the United States rallied in hundreds of events nationwide, including Baltimore City's Inner Harbor and counties like Baltimore, Harford, and Howard.
- Facing persistent low pay, workers say many need two and three jobs to survive while the Economic Policy Institute reports 67 million earn less than $25 per hour, One Fair Wage's living wage.
- Labor unions and community groups rallied against Trump administration policies, with May Day Strong urging collective action, saying `billionaires are stealing from working families`.
- Protesters criticized President Donald Trump while pressing for a living wage, even as White House press secretary Caroline Leavitt posted a Labor Day message praising Trump's worker record.
- Some participants linked economic grievances to anti-immigrant scapegoating, with demonstrators demanding public schools, health care and affordable housing over billionaire interests.
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1,000 Labor Day protesters: ‘Peoples’ needs, not billionaire greed!’
SEQUIM, Wash.—Nearly 1,000 protesters celebrated Labor Day here Sept 1, joining a vast crowd along Washington Avenue holding signs that proclaimed “Peoples’ Needs, not Billionaire Greed” and “Honor Labor, Creator of ALL Value.” It was another in a daily outpouring of angry protests against President Donald Trump and the MAGA Republican majority in the House and Senate waging nonstop war on voting rights, freedom of speech and assembly, and vicio…
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