For years, many students, staff and faculty have been fighting for the University of Virginia’s lowest-paid employees to be paid a living wage, but little progress has been made. I feel there is no reason UVa should deny their workers a living wage. With many people in the world working two or three jobs and still struggling to bring home food for their children, I can’t help but support the Living Wage Campaign. When people are suffering, it is only human to find a way to help them. UVa’s main argument is that it doesn’t have enough room in its budget to pay a minimum wage of at least $13 per hour (before benefits) to its employees. UVa has a budget of more than a billion dollars. It is ridiculous to say the university cannot find a way to pay the living wage. One UVa math major calculated that it would take one-tenth of 1 percent of the budget to pay all of the university’s underpaid employees a living wage.
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/2012/may/29/uva-staff-deserve-living-wage-ar-1949856/
