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The Real Crime Isn’t Shoplifting—It’s Wage Theft (newrepublic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[Image description: A graph comparing the relative costs of different types of theft represented as area of a rectangle, with categories and dollar amounts in text:

Wage Theft (when employers steal from employees)
Minimum wage violations $23.20 billion
Overtime violations $8.80 billion
Rest Break violations $4.0 billion
Off-the-clock violations $3.20 billion

Other types of theft
Larceny $5.30 billion
Burglary $4.10 billion
Auto Theft $3.80 billion
Robbery $0.34 billion

* all $ amounts are per year
** all data is for the U.S.

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