A louder rumble is brewing in the fight to end poverty–also known as the fight to hike the minimum wage. Filling some jails is on the agenda…

From The Guardian:

America’s fast food workers are planning their biggest strike to date this Thursday, with a nationwide walkout in protest at low wages and poor healthcare.

…Workers from McDonald’s, Burger King, Pizza Hut and other large chains will strike on Thursday and are planning protests outside stores nationwide, in states including California, Missouri, Wisconsin and New York.

The day of disruption is being coordinated by local coalitions and Fast Food Forward and Fight for 15, union-backed pressure groups which have called for the raising of the minimum wage to $15 an hour for the nation’s four million fast-food workers. [Emphasis added]

At least the $15-an-hour demand is significantly higher than the lukewarm $10.10-an-hour demand being pushed by Democrats and The White House. I’m still of the view, as I argued many weeks ago, that the demand should be $20 an hour. But, the main thing that I like here is the activism in the streets.