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Last week’s actions demonstrate a significant increase in momentum for the protesters since last November’s day of action in New York City and subsequent strikes in other cities.
As we discussed last week, low wage workers across the country walked off the job in order to demand a higher minimum wage.
(Read more HERE on why it’s well past time to raise the minimum wage.)
Click through to watch the strikes spread across the country in this map created by ThinkProgress:
Senator McCain blasts Fox News’ Islamophobia.
Dear editors: Please stop publishing columns justifying rape.
Russia and China provide practically no aid to Syrian refugees.
The latest GOP attack on Obamacare.
An open discussion of abortion in a surprising and prominent place.
Unions matter.
Iowa’s sneak attack on abortion access.
It’s time for the GOP to get out of the way on Obamacare.
Justice Ginsburg became the first member of the Supreme Court to officiate at a same-sex wedding.
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