rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/mississippi-state-university-living-wage-petition?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-mississippi-state-university-living-wage-petition' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> CWA Local 3565 https://actionnetwork.org/groups/united-campus-workers-of-mississippi-cwa-local-3565 https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg A full time job should keep you out of poverty--not in it. Over 500 full-time employees at Mississippi State University and graduate workers earn less than an annual pay of $48,000 or $24/hour. Not only do many MSU workers earn a poverty salary that none can afford to live well on but Mississippi State provides seldom and scant raises. As a result, employees with decades of service make effectively less than when they started as the cost of living in the Starkville area has skyrocketed over the last decade. According to the Economic Policy Institute a survival wage for a single-parent household in Oktibbeha County is $48,297 or $24 an hour. https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/mississippi-state-university-living-wage-petition