North Carolina Is A Canary in the Electoral Mine
SHORT TAKES: Filibuster Killing More Working Class Dreams; The Voice of A Minimum Wage Worker; Cleaning House in Nevada
LONG TAKE:
I don’t want to spend too much time in the abstract on electoral politics but I will raise elections when there is a very clear point to be made about policy. So…in the wreckage of the abhorrent vote to block a hike in the federal minimum wage to $15-an-hour by banning it from being included in the relief bill (for truly arcane, bad reasoning)…