Saru Jayaraman joined Bill Maher to discuss her new book, One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America (The New Press). The interview is available at HBO Max. 

Saru Jayaraman is the President of One Fair Wage, a national organization working to raise wages for service workers nationwide, and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. Her recent book has been widely praised, with endorsements from author Michelle Alexander, Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, and others.  

“One Fair Wage powerfully reveals the history of the racist, sexist subminimum wage and offers a wake up call — challenging us to see how the subminimum wage continues to cause needless suffering in the lives of millions of people today, including incarcerated people and disabled workers who are often relegated to the margins of wage and labor debates.  This book is not to be missed if you care about economic justice in America.”

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

“One Fair Wage shines a bright light on the complex and cruel web of systematic wage inequity in America — while also outlining the straightforward, concrete solutions necessary to overcome this crisis.  Saru Jayaraman is a vital leader fighting for economic justice across our country, and her voice and vision are a roadmap for all of us.”  

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal