Oct. 10, 2014
The insidious rise of wage garnishment
Nearly 1.5 million Californians currently have their wages garnished. For these workers the garnishment of up to one quarter of their paycheck every week is coming at a terrible price. By Sharon Djemal, Luke Diamond and Ted Mermin
Ted Mermin
Interim Executive Director, Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice; Executive Director, Public Good Law Center
Email: tmermin@law.berkeley.edu
California is experiencing a wage garnishment explosion. 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...
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