At the January 12th membership meeting the Village Independent Democrats endorsed a letter to Speaker Christine Quinn applauding her support
of the
Fair Wage For New Yorkers Act as a first step toward ensuring a living wage, but calling on her to move quickly to expand the act to cover the substantial
number of minimum wage
workers who remain unprotected and without enough
of a weekly paycheck to afford food and shelter in our city.
Having worked as a psychologist with a large
number of humanitarian aid
workers, I've heard my
fair share
of stories
of relationships which burst apart, or just got stretched too far, through long distance complications.