In today's show, we hear from a student who, with her classmates, successfully raised the minimum wage in San Jose, California; a golf league for Detroit detectives; a novelist who is teaching Chicago Police Officers to write fiction; and a 2004 conversation between Dick Gordon and the late Seamus Heaney.
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Fighting For A Higher Minimum Wage
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