(Reuters) - Fast-food workers in hundreds
of U.S. cities staged a day of rallies on Thursday to demand higher wages,
saying the pay was too low to feed a family and forced most to accept public
assistance.
The protests escalated a series of actions at
several Walmart stores on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, seeking to
draw attention to workers at the lowest end of the wage scale.
The description of fast-food workers, once
viewed mainly as teenagers looking for pocket money or a first job, has changed.
Today's fast-food worker is typically over 20, often raising a child, and 68
percent are the primary wage earners in their families, according to a report
by the University of Illinois and the University of California, Berkeley.
About 100 workers in Chicago marched along
Michigan Avenue with a large costumed Grinch, chanting: "We can't survive
on $7.25." Protesters want the hourly U.S. minimum wage raised to $15 from
$7.25.
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