Catherwood LibraryILR School

At the World Bank's headquarters in Washington, D.C., workers are on strike to protest low wages as many of them struggle to make ends meet despite working for an organization dedicated to fighting poverty. Even though many of these workers make close to eighteen dollars an hour, these wages are not aligned with the high cost of living in Washington D.C. given that the living wage index lists twenty-two dollars an hour as the ideal minimum wage for the city. Additionally, many of the food workers at the World Bank headquarters are contract workers who come from the countries in which the bank funds missions. The food workers on strike claim that the World Bank should begin its mission of helping the impoverished by first looking to adequately pay its workers.