The best of the week’s news:

• How the minimum wage could finally sink Mitch McConnell.
• Payday lenders back modern-day debtor’s prisons.
• Bored? Broke? Start a “corrective behavioral institute” to rehabilitate California criminals. You don’t need any qualifications. You don’t even need to file your taxes!
• How the paint industry shirks responsibility for lead poisoning, via Fair Warning News.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]