A Double Standard

Editor's Note: TomPaine.com is pleased to introduce a special guest blogger this week. While executive editor Alex Walker is away on vacation, Beth Shulman will be blogging in her place. Shulman, a frequent TomPaine.com contributor, is a lawyer and author who is passionate about making the U.S. economy work for working people. Shulman’s book The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans was published in 2003.