Is there anything more enraging than the ugly spectacle of Senate millionaires and lobbyists - a broad coalition "from the rich to the very rich to the super-rich" - ganging up to defeat a minimum wage raise supported by the majority of the American people, aka the people they ostensibly represent? Seattle helped ease the pain a bit with a phased-in deal to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour over a few years, proving MLK was right again about that arc of the moral universe.
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"It's supposed to be a democratic process and it's not a democratic process when Amazon can contribute that much to basically a small election."
"Seattle Public Schools should stand with the global climate justice movement...
"The biggest statement Mr. Bezos could make is by raising the pay of workers in...
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