Tag / Minimum Wage
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Splitting the Ticket: The Gap Between Statewide Races and Ballot Initiatives
Looking past the top line numbers in the House and Senate, one of the most interesting results of the midterm elections is the gap between ballot initiatives and statewide races in red and purple states. The results of the statewide races clearly show the strength of partisan polarization. Incumbent Democratic senators lost in Missouri and…
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Ferguson and the Fight for 15
The McDonald’s on West Florrisant Avenue in Ferguson became a notorious corner of a notorious city for a violent altercation between journalists and over-militarized police during the protests of mid-August. But the Ferguson McDonald’s has also come to symbolize something deeper than just confrontations between cops and civilians: the emergence of a new labor-civil rights…
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The Price of Skinny Jeans
BY MATTHEW HANKIN Before last spring, few Americans had heard of Rana Plaza, an illegally constructed eight-story building in Savar, Bangladesh. On April 24th, 2013, the building, which contained textile factories that supplied skinny jeans and other garments to Walmart and other American and international brands, collapsed, killing over 1,100 workers and injuring approximately 2,500.…
