Today on Good Morning America, ABC News aired an investigative report on how the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division is a "miserable failure" when it comes to pursuing complaints from American workers.  The segment included an appearance by Illinois' own Kim Bobo, executive director of Interfaith Worker Justice.  She called it "an absolute outrage that we have workers going to work every day and they have no protection from the government to ensure that they get paid."  Watch it:

Bobo is the author of Wage Theft in America: Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid - And What We Can Do About It.  To learn about the issue of wage theft, read this recent interview with her.