In California, for example, a minimum-wage employee must work 130 hours a week to afford a two-bedroom rental, according to the report. The coalition has released this report annually for the past 25 years.
Satin Doll  is a jazz standard written by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Written in 1953, the song has been recorded countless times, by such artists as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, 101 Strings, Terry Callier, and Nancy Wilson. Its chord progression is well known for its unusual use of chords and opening with a ii-V-I turnaround.
Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel Valley Of The Dolls is seen as a trashy, kitsch entertainment about pills, sex and ambition. It's all of that, says Julie Burchill, but its message - that bad, brassy girls can have the last laugh - was bold, subversive and feminist.