Leslie Walz: A fair wage for fair work

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Leslie Walz, of Barre, who is a retired Vermont nurse.
In my career as a school nurse, public health nurse and consulting nurse to the Head Start program, I had daily contact with some of the 60,000 people living below the federal poverty level in Vermont. I’ve seen how much energy it takes struggling parents to provide the most basic of care for their families and how they are docked pay when their children are sick. In the past two decades more