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A Living Wage . NOW | PBS

A Living Wage . NOW | PBS: "This week, NOW examines the fight for a 'living wage'—the pay needed to cover an actual week's worth of living—on the Nashville, Tennessee campus of Vanderbilt University. The chancellor there earns $1.2 million a year, the endowment is $3 billion, but some of the school's lowest-paid workers—groundskeepers, custodians, and dining service workers—earn less than $8.00 an hour."
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