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Movement for Living Wages, Community Space, Organizing Rights Grows at Queens Center Mall

The coalition fighting for living wages and community space at the Queens Center Mall confronted the mall owner, the Macerich Company, today demanding a meeting to begin discussions on how to transform the publicly subsidized poverty wage center into a responsible development that pays employees a living wage and benefits the community.

The Queens Center Mall is one of the most profitable malls in the country. Yet, as the Queens Center Mall Coalition’s December report revealed, the Macerich Company receives over $100 million in tax breaks but most of the 3,100 jobs at the mall pay at or around the $7.25 federal minimum wage and do not include health benefits. As a result, the study found the mall has helped create an entire community that is struggling under the weight of poverty-wage jobs.

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