From today's Open Left:

"Is your boss stealing from you? Probably.

"Paul Rosenberg wrote recently about how wage theft against the bottom 15 percent of the workforce is 'so widespread that workers in just three cities-Los Angeles, Chicago and New York City (total population about 15 million)-had roughly $2.9 billion in wages stolen from them in 2008.' The workers surveyed had lost an average of 15 percent of their legal wages. Now that kind of theft is in outright violation of the law, not that anyone who can do something about it cares."