62 years ago today, 6-year-old #RubyBridges integrated William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Many, including white moderates, believed that she was “out of order.”
Thank you to Ruby Bridges and her family for being “out of order.”
Let's be clear. Eli Lilly should apologize for increasing the price of insulin by over 1,200% since 1996 to $275 while it costs less than $10 to manufacture. The inventors of insulin sold their patents in 1923 for $1 to save lives, not to make Eli Lilly's CEO obscenely rich.
All students at Colorado public schools will get free school meals, after voters passed a ballot measure Tuesday.
Currently about 70,000 Colorado kids can’t afford school meals but don’t qualify for free or reduced lunch programs.
Cities where restaurant workers are paid the full minimum wage have *higher* tipping averages and stronger restaurant industry growth, finds a @onefairwage study.
It counters common talking points against ending the subminimum wage for tipped workers.
Dartmouth grad workers are going up to $40k before a union contract because of union pressure. This proves two things: 1) Dartmouth absolutely needs a union. 2) The age of underpaying and overworking grad workers is ending. @FordhamNYC, are you listening?