Ted Mermin, Luke Diamond, and Sharon Djemal write for Daily Journal (registration required), October 9, 2014
Nearly 1.5 million Californians currently have their wages garnished. For these workers, many of whom already live near or below the poverty line, the garnishment of up to one quarter of their paycheck every week is forcing terrible choices upon them: rent or groceries; medicine or car payments. It is pushing them into poverty, or keeping them from escaping it.