• Fast food workers at 1,000 stores in 58 cities walked off the job yesterday to demand a living wage of $15/hr.

• With public education on the ropes, the head of the Fashion Institute of Technology makes $46,000 a year for 10 hours a week, on top of her $284,000 salary.

• From voting rights to the school-to-prison pipeline, ProPublica compiles a reading list on racial justice for this week’s anniversary of the March on Washington.

• Sidney-winner Dave Jamieson takes us inside the brutal Dollar Store Economy.

• Patronage alert: The husband of the Ohio governor’s chief of staff, a longtime foe of teachers’ unions, has been appointed to expand school privatization.

[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]