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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kim Bobo has written a devastating new book called <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Wage Theft in America: </span><em><i><font
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>Why Millions of Working Americans
Are Not Getting Paid - </span></font></i></em><br>
<em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial'>And What We Can Do About
It</span></font></i></em></i><em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:
Arial;font-style:normal'> (New Press, 2009)</span></font></i></em>. From
a description of the book:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>….In
what has been described as "the crime wave no one talks about," wages
are stolen from millions of workers in the United States every year. Between
two and three million workers are paid less than the minimum wage. More than
three million are misclassified by their employers as independent contractors
when they are really employees, allowing employers to shirk their share of
payroll taxes and to illegally deny workers overtime pay. Even the Economic
Policy Foundation, a business- funded think tank, estimated that companies
annually steal 19 billion dollars in unpaid overtime….</span></font></b><b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold'><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Kim Bobo is making three appearances in the greater Boston
area on Wednesday and Thursday, January 28 and January 29.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:3.75pt;background:white'><b><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Boston Launch for Kim Bobo's <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Wage Theft in America</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:3.75pt;background:white'><b><i><font
size=1 color="#a80431" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#A80431;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Wednesday, January 28,
2009<br>
11:30 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:3.75pt;background:white'><font size=3
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>SEIU Local 615 - 26 West Street, Boston (Sponsored by the
Massachusetts Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<hr size=2 width="100%" align=center>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:3.75pt;background:white'><b><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Event at Harvard Law School for Kim Bobo's <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Wage Theft in America</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:3.75pt;background:white'><b><i><font
size=1 color="#a80431" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#A80431;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Thursday, January 29,
2009<br>
4:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:3.75pt;background:white'><font size=3
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>Langdell South (Langdell Hall), Harvard Law School, 1545
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge [Sponsored by the Harvard Trade Union Program,
Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School, Co-Sponsored by MIT’s
Institute for Work and Employment Research]. Contact john_trumpbour@harvard.edu<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:3.75pt;background:white'><b><font
size=3 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Kim Bobo addresses Jamaica Plain Forum in Boston
on <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Wage Theft in America</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:3.75pt;background:white'><b><i><font
size=1 color="#a80431" face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:#A80431;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Thursday, January 29,
2009<br>
7:00 PM<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-right:3.75pt;background:white'><font size=3
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'>First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist - 6 Eliot
Street - Parish Hall - www.jamaicaplainforum.org [Co-Sponsored by <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Dollars & Sense</span></i> and <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Boston Review</span></i>]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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