Rogue Citizen presents: Living Wage
Rogue Citizen artists each create 40 one-hour paintings in line with a 40-hour work week. All art is name your price, minimum $23, the hourly wage considered a living wage in Minnesota.
The federal minimum wage has not kept up with inflation and the cost of living since the 1960s. The current rate of $7.25 is a pathetic, untenable number that has not been increased in 15 years. If a quick painting is worth more than $7.25 - more than $23.00 - everyone's labor is worth more. Yet, more than 40% of full-time American workers are not making a living wage. Employers steal up to $50 billion annually from workers in wage theft. Hard fought achievements of the labor movement are being aggressively attacked by corrupt politicians and courts back by powerful corporations. This art show won't do much to thwart escalating efforts to crush the working class, but it can remind us to rethink the value of our time, the importance of organized labor, and the system we've been raised to accept without question.
All sales are donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.
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