Fortune: What corporate America should do for low-wage workers

Fast-food workers and supporters protest in front of a McDonald's.
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Embracing a living wage is good for business, and good for all.

The voices of low-wage workers are about to get a lot louder.

On April 15, fast food, retail, and other low-wage workers are planning a wave of actions to demand a $15 minimum wage. Organizers say protests in 200 American cities and solidarity actions in 35 other countries will add up to the largest mobilization of underpaid workers in history.

This should be a wake-up call to the business community. It’s a moral disgrace that so many hard-working Americans have to scrape to get by on a minimum wage that is 25% below what it was in 1968.

It’s also bad for business.

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