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As many as 400 workers at more than 60 fast food restaurants in the Detroit metro area walked off the job on Friday. The fast food strike in Detroit is the second major labor action to hit an American city’s fast food industry this week: On Wednesday and Thursday, more than 100 workers in St. Louis walked off the job at roughly 30 different restaurants. These rolling walkouts followed similar actions in New York, central Pennsylvania, and Chicago.

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The Minimum Wage Is Very Aptly Named (1961), What Does a Non-violent Movement Do About Threats of Violence? (1966), If You Haven’t Seen It, Now’s the Time (1966)

A FAQ on the economics of increasing wage floors

Minimum-wage increases were expected to kill jobs. The fact that they didn’t should make us rethink a lot of assumptions.

“Today, there isn’t a single state, metropolitan area, or county in the United States where a full-time worker earning the local minimum wage can afford a two-bedroom apartment.”

How Trump’s first year in office hurt women and what states can do to fix it