May 23, 2014
#Sidney's Picks: Inequality, Religion, and Beer
The Best of the Week’s News:
- A powerful essay by David Cay Johnston on the need to make the minimum wage a living wage.
- A year for a beer? That’s what can happen if you’re too poor to pay your court fees.
- More than 100 protesters were arrested on Wednesday at a rally for a wage hike to $15/hr outside McDonald’s corporate headquarters.
- How does Antonin Scalia’s religion affect his judging?
- Unions: How do they Work? A new project from AFSCME on unions and the econonomy.
[Photo credit: Wander Mule, Creative Commons.]