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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Burger King Rebellion, Minimum Wage Woes

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Liberty Leading the People by Eugene Delacroix. 

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • We all quit,” Nebraska Burger King employees vote with their feet over unsafe working conditions. (WREG)
     
  • Full-time minimum wage workers can’t afford rent anywhere in the US. (CNBC)
     
  • How to get labor law reform past the filibuster. (Washington Monthly)
     
  • Liberté, Egalité, Britney! The investigative reporters excavating the Spears conservatorship fiasco. (ProPublica)
     
  • Hillman Prize-winner Jamelle Bouie describes the two fronts in the GOP war on voting. (NYT)