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The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: NYC's Food Stamp Program in Disarray; Chipotle "Threw Away" Workers

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A plaque memorializing the Haymarket Martyrs, executed on this day in 1887. KirbyfestCreative Commons.

The Best of the Week’s News:

  • New York City failed to promptly process 40% of food stamp applications. (CityLimits)
     
  • Immigrant workers say Chipotle fired them for organizing. (Documented)
  • Harper Collins workers strike for a living wage. (Guardian)
     
  • Michigan’s “right to work law” in the crosshairs as Democrats regain control of the state legislature. (Bridge)
     
  • Teamsters seek to organize the Woodford Reserve bourbon distillery. (WKYT)