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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Fast Food Workers To Strike Again [Watch (HLS stream): Fast Food Workers To Strike Again](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/AliaB4Gj.m3u8) (2:50)  _Published 2013-12-04. 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Underneath the Williamsburg Bridge? It's not right. >> The median pay for fast food workers is $ 9 an hour, or $ 18, 720 a year. >> Workers are taking these jobs because they are desperate. And in an economy that is still not creating enough work for people who want to go to work and still not creating enough middle class jobs. >> Eduardo Shoy lost his job a few years ago. Now 58 with two children headed to college, he works at Kentucky Fried Chicken in New York, earning $ 7. 25 an hour. He also works a night shift as a forklift operator at Kennedy Airport. He moved his family to another state and is trying to sell his house. >> For me, it's tough, real tough, is I can't do none of the things that I used to do. I used to able to pay my mortgage, able to pay my car payment, able to take my family out to dinner. That, we had to cut it out. You know, we had to sacrifice a lot of stuff. >> Eduardo will take to the streets in New York this Thursday to take part in a strike which demands that the federal minimum wage be raised to $ 15 per hour. The protests have expanded since last November when 200 workers staged a one- day strike at more than 20 restaurants in New York City. And this past July and August, there were strikes by fast food workers in states across the country. >> Once the nation is hearing it, you know, we have been striking all over the country, so people are getting an understanding. They're really seeing the light of what's going on. >> But the industry says it has created jobs in this difficult economy. In response to the strikes, the National Restaurant Association said in a statement, " Dramatic increases in a starting wage, such as those called for in these rallies, will challenge that job growth history, increase prices for restaurant meals especially in the value segments, and lead to fewer jobs created ." >> Half of all Americans make $ 26, 000 a year or less. 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