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<div><p>I was in Seattle recently (great city, fabulous, everyone says so), and while there a very nice and gregarious person was telling us about how excited she was for the upcoming $15 minimum wage (it's currently $13).</p><p>I knew almost nothing about it other than brief headlines on the news, 

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<div><p>While at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unrig-the-system-a-meeting-of-nonpartisan-reformers-tickets-31232899443?utm_campaign=order_confirmation_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;ref=eemailordconf&amp;utm_source=eb_email&amp;utm_term=eventname" rel="noopener noreferrer">Unrig the System</

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<div><p>Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan are planning on <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/gops-new-plan-to-repeal-obamacare-dare-fellow-republicans-to-block-effort-1488154291?mod=e2tw" rel="noopener noreferrer">moving forward</a> with the GOP's <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-

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