Fast food strikes to massively expand: “They’re thinking much bigger”

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13. The broad base for raising minimum wage always shocks Republicans

I remember when Nevada had a vote in the general election to raise the minimum wage to one dollar above the federally set wage (so $8.25 an hour). After a year of Koch brothers spending, Chamber of Commerce advertising, and general right wing nuttiness on the issue, the conservatives were shocked when something like eighty percent of voters voted to raise the minimum wage. That means all of the Democrats and more than half of the Republicans chose to support the working poor, in the middle of a depression in one of the states hardest hits by that depression.