Economy

In One Upper East Side Bakery, a Victory for Labor Rights

The documentary "The Hand That Feeds" is a humanizing portrait of one battle in the wage war.
Eleazar Castillo

The fight for income equality has hit a new stride. On April 15, some 60,000 low-wage workers—mainly from fast-food restaurants, but also daycare employees, yoga instructors, gas station attendants, adjunct professors, and more—marched across 200 cities worldwide in demand of a higher minimum wage. Increasingly, these are the people who help our country run.