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No, a minimum wage increase in April didn’t raise prices last September

1 year 2 months ago
This is so tedious: Restaurants for months have said menu prices in California would rise as the state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers. Now they are following through. ....Since September, when California moved to require large fast-food chains to bump up their minimum hourly pay to $20 in April, fast-food and fast-casual restaurants ...continue reading "No, a minimum wage increase in April didn’t raise prices last September"
Kevin Drum

Tough Mudder

1 year 2 months ago

Tough Mudder, the global leader in obstacle course adventures, will host an event at World Wide Technology Raceway on April 27 and 28. The world’s premier endurance event will offer […]

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Rachel Huffman

80+ Protestors Arrested at Wash U as Students Protest Ties to Boeing

1 year 2 months ago
The arrests came in waves, and as students at Washington University chanted for a free Palestine, others were marched away to the beat of a protest drum in the background. Police from multiple St. Louis-area departments — including Richmond Heights Police, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the St. Louis County Police and the Washington University Police — spent hours staring down student activists praying, eating and protesting for Palestine on Wash U’s lawn.  Nearly three hours after an initial warning to disperse, officers moved in with zip ties, dragging students to the ground and ripping apart a human chain as they arrested demonstrators. 
Kallie Cox